US20070059697A1 - Determining cancer-linked genes and therapeutic targets using molecular cytogenetic methods - Google Patents

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US20070059697A1 US10/553,098 US55309804A US2007059697A1 US 20070059697 A1 US20070059697 A1 US 20070059697A1 US 55309804 A US55309804 A US 55309804A US 2007059697 A1 US2007059697 A1 US 2007059697A1
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  • the present invention relates to identification of genes whose disruption and/or change in expression is useful to distinguish cancerous from non-cancerous tissue and serve as potential therapeutic targets, pharmacodynamic/pharmacogenetic/surrogate and prognostic and diagnostic markers, and which genes are identified by high resolution Comparative Genomic Hybridization (CGH) and Spectral Karyotyping (SKY)/fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH) analysis of DNA and chromosomes of various cancer cell lines and primary and metastatic tumor samples combined with gene expression analysis of these cells and tissues.
  • CGH Comparative Genomic Hybridization
  • SKY Spectral Karyotyping
  • FISH fluorescent in situ hybridization
  • chromosome banding techniques allow for the detection of specific chromosomal defects in tumor cells but interpretation of the banding pattern is sometimes difficult, particularly when complex chromosomal rearrangements or subtle abnormalities are present.
  • new techniques such as CGH and SKY, based on fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH) (Pinkel et al., Proc Nat Acad Sci USA 85:9138-42 (1988)) have been developed to overcome the limitations of conventional chromosome banding.
  • FISH fluorescent in situ hybridization
  • CGH measures intensities of fluorescently labeled tumor DNA and normal DNA following hybridization to normal chromosomes (Kallioniemi et al., Science 258:818-21 (1992)).
  • Gain or loss of copy number of a particular chromosome or chromosome region in the tumor DNA is determined by the relative intensity of a fluorescence ratio.
  • SKY utilizes a cocktail of chromosome probes, fluorescently labeled to specify each chromosome, which is hybridized to tumor chromosomes in an effort to identify numerical and structural abnormalities in the tumor cell (Schröck et al., Science 273:494-7 (1996)).
  • CGH and SKY have been used to identify chromosomal regions that harbor genes significant to the process of tumor initiation or progression.
  • the present invention relates to a set of genes that have been localized within human chromosomal regions of interest (ROI) that have been identified by molecular cytogenetic techniques.
  • ROI human chromosomal regions of interest
  • the present invention relates to a method for diagnosing cancer in a mammal, especially a human patient, comprising determining amplification of a gene in the genome of a mammal wherein said gene is a gene of Table 1.
  • the cancer is a member selected from breast cancer, colon cancer, lung cancer, prostate cancer, ovarian cancer, pancreatic cancer, cervical cancer and kidney cancer.
  • the present invention relates to a method for diagnosing cancer or a pre-cancerous condition in a mammal, comprising:
  • step (b) comparing said gene copy number of step (a) to the gene copy number of the same gene from a sample of a corresponding cell or tissue from a mammal of the same species not having cancer of the type being diagnosed whereby a higher gene copy number determined in step (a) relative to that in step (b) indicates the presence of a cancer or pre-cancerous condition in the mammal of step (a) and results in a diagnosis of cancer or a pre-cancerous condition in said mammal.
  • said molecule is a member selected from an antisense DNA, an antisense RNA, a ribozyme and an siRNA.
  • the present invention relates to a method for identifying an agent having therapeutic activity in a human patient in need of said therapeutic activity, comprising:
  • step (c) determining in a sample from said patient the level of a gene product encoded by the same the gene as in step (a)
  • step (c) wherein a decrease in the level of said gene product in step (c) relative to step (a) identifies said test compound as an agent having therapeutic activity.
  • the present invention relates to a method for identifying an antineoplastic agent, comprising:
  • the present invention also relates to a method for determining the cancerous status of a cell, comprising determining elevated expression in said cell of a gene of Table 1 wherein elevated expression of said gene indicates that said cell is cancerous.
  • the present invention relates to a method for identifying a compound as an anti-neoplastic agent, comprising:
  • the polypeptide is an enzyme selected from kinase, protease, peptidase, phosphodiesterase, phosphatase, dehydrogenase, reductase, carboxylase. transferase, deacetylase and polymerase.
  • the present invention also relates to a method for identifying an anti-neoplastic agent comprising contacting a cancerous cell with a compound found to have anti-neoplastic activity in other the methods of the invention under conditions promoting the growth of said cell and detecting a change in the activity of said cancerous cell.
  • the present invention further relates to a method for treating cancer comprising contacting a cancerous cell with an agent having affinity for an expression product of a gene of Table 1 and in an amount effective to cause a reduction in cancerous activity of said cell.
  • the present invention also contemplates a method for monitoring the progress of cancer therapy in a patient comprising monitoring in a patient undergoing cancer therapy the expression of a gene of Table 1.
  • the present invention encompasses a method for determining the likelihood of success of cancer therapy in a patient, comprising monitoring in a patient undergoing cancer therapy the expression of a gene of Table 1 wherein a decrease in said expression prior to completion of said cancer therapy is indicative of a likelihood of success of said cancer therapy.
  • the present invention relates to a method for producing test data with respect to the anti-neoplastic activity of a compound comprising:
  • the present invention encompasses a method for determining the progress of a treatment for cancer in a patent afflicted therewith, following commencement of a cancer treatment on said patient, comprising:
  • sequences disclosed herein as SEQ ID NO: 1-923 in the sequence listing are contained on compact disc (CD-ROM) only, which accompanies this application and the contents of said CD-ROMs are hereby incorporated by reference in their entirety. These sequence numbers also appear in Table where all sequences are referred to as consecutive serial numbers for reference purposes only.
  • the present invention relates to a set of genes that are amplified and/or over-expressed genes in cancer cell lines and have been localized to various chromosomal regions of interest. These genes have been identified through a combination of CGH, SKY, expression analysis and Reverse Transcriptase-Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR). Such genes are both markers and potential therapeutic targets for cancer, in particular breast, colon, lung and prostate malignancies.
  • RT-PCR Reverse Transcriptase-Polymerase Chain Reaction
  • the amplified nature of such genes provides a means of diagnosing a cancerous condition, or predisposition to a cancerous conditions, by determining the amplification of one or more of such genes in a patient afflicted with, or predisposed toward, or otherwise at risk of developing, cancer.
  • a number of genes have been localized to a chromosomal regions of interest as identified in Table 1 (serial number 1-229 (breast), 230-440 (colon), 441-656 (lung) and 657-805 (prostate), serial number 806-923 (transcript or protein)).
  • the invention also includes any subsets of these. As described herein, these sequences include DNA sequences of SEQ ID NO: 1-805, transcripts with the sequences of SEQ ID NO: 855-923, and proteins/polypeptides with amino acid sequences of SEQ ID NO: 806-854.
  • RNAs were isolated from the cells or cultures as an indicator of selected gene expression. The cellular RNAs were then divided and subjected to analysis that detected the presence and/or quantity of specific RNA transcripts, which transcripts were then amplified for detection purposes using standard methodologies, such as reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). The levels of specific RNA transcripts, including their presence or absence, were determined.
  • modulating agents such as ant-neoplastic agents
  • the genes identified as being amplified and/or over-expressed, which can include increased copy number thereof, in cancerous cells are localized in chromosomal regions of interest as identified in Table 1 (serial number 1-229 (breast), 230440 (colon), 441-656 (lung) and 657-805 (prostate); for polypeptide SEQ ID NOs, see Table 1, serial number 806-923 (transcript or protein)).
  • genes may be utilized to characterize, the cancerous, or non-cancerous, status of cells, or tissues.
  • the methods of the invention may be used with a variety of cell lines or with primary samples from tumors maintained in vitro under suitable culture conditions for varying periods of time, or in situ in suitable animal models.
  • genes disclosed herein are expressed at levels in cancer cells that are different from the expression levels in non-cancer cells. These genes as identified in Table 1 are amplified in cancer cells relative to non-cancer cells of corresponding tissues, especially breast cancer, colon cancer, lung cancer, prostate cancer, ovarian cancer, pancreatic cancer, cervical cancer and kidney cancer.
  • the present invention relates to a method for diagnosing cancer in a mammal, comprising determining amplification of a gene in the genome of a mammal wherein said gene is a gene of Table 1.
  • said gene of Table 1 is a gene that encodes the same gene product as a polynucleotide selected from the polynucleotides of SEQ ID NO: 1-805 and 855-923.
  • said mammal is a human patient.
  • the present invention is also directed to a method for diagnosing cancer or a pre-cancerous condition in a mammal, preferably a human patient, comprising:
  • step (b) comparing said gene copy number of step (a) to the gene copy number of the same gene from a sample of a corresponding cell or tissue from a mammal of the same species not having cancer of the type being diagnosed
  • step (a) whereby a higher gene copy number determined in step (a) relative to that in step (b) indicates the presence of a cancer or pre-cancerous condition in the mammal of step (a) and results in a diagnosis of cancer or a pre-cancerous condition in said mammal.
  • the cancer to be diagnosed is one or more of breast cancer, colon cancer, lung cancer, prostate cancer, ovarian cancer, pancreatic cancer, cervical cancer and kidney cancer.
  • the gene of Table 1 is a gene that encodes the same gene product as a polynucleotide of SEQ ID NO: 1-805 and 855-923.
  • the present invention is also directed to a method of inhibiting cancer, or a pre-cancerous condition, in a mammalian cell, comprising contacting said cell with a molecule that inhibits function of a gene of Table 1.
  • the gene of Table 1 is a gene that encodes the same gene product as a polynucleotide of SEQ ID NO: 1-805 and 855-923.
  • said molecule inhibits gene function by binding to said gene.
  • the molecule inhibits gene function by binding to an RNA encoded by said gene or inhibits gene function by binding to polypeptide encoded by said gene.
  • the molecule is a member selected from an antisense DNA, an antisense RNA, a ribozyme and an siRNA.
  • the cancer is a member selected from breast cancer, colon cancer, lung cancer, prostate cancer, ovarian cancer, pancreatic cancer, cervical cancer and kidney cancer.
  • the invention contemplates that such contacting occurs in vivo.
  • the invention also relates to a method for identifying an agent having therapeutic activity in a human patient in need of said therapeutic activity, comprising:
  • step (c) determining in a sample from said patient the level of a gene product encoded by the same the gene as in step (a)
  • step (c) wherein a decrease in the level of said gene product in step (c) relative to step (a) identifies said test compound as an agent having therapeutic activity.
  • said therapeutic activity is anticancer activity and said cancer is one or more of breast cancer, colon cancer, lung cancer, prostate cancer, ovarian cancer, pancreatic cancer, cervical cancer and kidney cancer.
  • said gene product is an RNA or a polypeptide, especially where an activity of the polypeptide is determined, preferably an enzyme activity.
  • said gene of Table 1 is a gene that encodes the same gene product as a polynucleotide of SEQ ID NO: 1-805 and 855-923, as well as where said molecule is a member selected from an antisense DNA, an antisense RNA, a ribozyme and an siRNA.
  • the present invention also relates to a method for identifying an antineoplastic agent, comprising:
  • the change in expression is a decrease in expression.
  • the contacting may occur in vivo.
  • said gene of Table 1 encodes the same gene product as a polynucleotide of SEQ ID NO: 1-805 and 855-923 and where said molecule is a member selected from an antisense DNA, an antisense RNA, ribozyme, an siRNA, a small organic molecule and an antibody.
  • the present invention also relates to a method for determining the cancerous status of a cell, comprising determining elevated expression in said cell of a gene of Table 1 wherein elevated expression of said gene indicates that said cell is cancerous.
  • said elevated expression is an elevated copy number of the gene and wherein said gene of Table 1 encodes the same gene product as a polynucleotide of SEQ ID NO: 1-805 and 855 -923.
  • the present invention further relates to a method for identifying a compound as an anti-neoplastic agent, comprising:
  • said gene of Table encodes the same gene product as a polynucleotide of SEQ ID NO: 1-805 and 855-923.
  • the change in biological activity is a decrease in biological activity.
  • the biological activity is an enzyme activity, such as where the enzyme is one selected from the group kinase, protease, peptidase, phosphodiesterase, phosphatase, dehydrogenase, reductase, carboxylase. transferase, deacetylase and polymerase.
  • Assays for these enzymes are available, such as for phosphodiesterases (the most pharmacologically relevant phosphodiesterases are those that hydrolyze cyclic nucleotides (see, for example, cAMP and cGMP assays available from Perkin-Elmer, as well as Estrade et al., Eur. J. Pharmacol. 352:2-3, 157-163 (1998)).
  • Protein phosphatases remove phosphate residues from proteins. Most tests of their activity use the same assays as for protein kinases. A non-radioactive phosphatase assay system is available from Promega Biotech.
  • the therapeutically most relevant dehydrogenases oxidize or reduce small molecular weight metabolites, esp. steroid hormones, or that generally use or generate NAD or NADP (see: Haeseleer et al., J. Biol. Chem., 273:21790-21799 (1998)).
  • a commercial assay is available from Cayman Chemical (at www.caymanchem.com).
  • Gamma-carboxylases are important enzymes in the blood coagulation process.
  • the main assay protocols use synthetic peptides (see: Ulrich et al., J. Biol. Chem., 263:9697-9702 (1988); Begley et al., J. Biol. Chem., 275:36245-36249 (2000)).
  • the kinase is one of a protein kinase, a serine or threonine kinase, or a receptor tyrosine protein kinase.
  • the polypeptide encoded by a gene of the invention is a protein kinase, especially involving tyrosine kinase, various assays for activity are available.
  • Protein kinases add phosphate groups to serine, threonine or tyrosine residues on proteins, most commonly measured with phospho-serine, threonine, or tyrosine-specific antibodies, or generation of radiolabeled substrate, or consumption of ATP, or phosphorylation of (synthetic) small peptides, or measuring downstream enzyme activity and gene transcription.
  • assays are commercially available. (See, for example, the tyrosine kinase assay from Roche Molecular Biochemicals). Assays for serine/threonine kinases are also available at Chromagen.com, Upstate Biotechnology, Inc. (Lake Placid, N.Y., and at upstatebiotech.com) and from Applied BioSystems (Foster City, Calif. (home.appliedbiosystems.com)).
  • the protease is a serine protease, cysteine protease or aspartic acid protease
  • the transferase is a methyltransferase, preferably a cytosine methyltransferase or an adenine methyltransferase
  • the deacetylase is a histone deacetylase
  • the carboxylase is a ⁇ -carboxylase
  • the peptidase is a zinc peptidase
  • the polymerase is a DNA polymerase or an RNA polymerase.
  • Proteases degrade proteins, un-specifically or at specific sites. Almost all pharmacologically relevant ones have very narrowly defined specific substrates, and their activity is most often measured by directly measuring cleavage product or generation of (fluorescent) light after cleavage of synthetic substrates. Assays are available for serine proteases (Calbiochem, Palo Alto, Calif., and see Berdichevsky et al., J. Virol. Methods, 107:245-255 (2003), for systeine proteases (See: Schulz et al., Mol.
  • HDAC histone deacetylase
  • Standard assays are for binding, especially molecular size changes, blocking a specific site, and effects on transcription or downstream reactions (if DNA or RNA is the direct target of a drug).
  • a commercial assay is available from Vinci Biochem (at www.vincibiochem.it).
  • the biological activity is a membrane transport activity, preferably wherein the polypeptide is a cation channel protein, an anion channel protein, a gated-ion channel protein or an ABC transporter protein.
  • Drug effects on the activity of transporter and channel proteins are screened by measuring increase or decrease of the ((radio-)labeled) transported entity inside or outside the cell, in cell-based assays, ATP consumption (in the case of ATPases), or changes in cell membrane potential.
  • the polypeptide is an integrin (the signal transduction pathways elicited by the integrins are slow and not very well characterized, hence most assays are either just binding assays or measure downstream biological phenomena (such as migration, invasion, etc.) (See: Ganta et al., Endocrinology, 138:3606-3612 (1997); Sim et al., J. Biomed. Mater. Research, 68A:352-359 (2004); and Weinreb et al., Anal.
  • Cytochrome P450 enzyme almost all cytochrome assays require knowledge of what the substrate is and measure conversion of substrate (free or (radio-)labeled) or generation of product; useful C 14 -labeled substrates are available from Amersham Biosciences at wwwl.amershambiosciences.com), or a nuclear hormone receptor (Assays available from Discoverx, Fremont, Calif., such as an estrogen assay; also see Rosen et al., Curr. Opin. Drug. Discov. Devel., 6:224-30 (2003)).
  • the biological activity is a receptor activity, preferably where the receptor is a G-protein-coupled receptor (GPCR).
  • GPCR G-protein-coupled receptor
  • GPCRs are transmembrane proteins that wind 7 times back and forth through a cell's plasma membrane with a ligand binding site located on the outside of the membrane surface of the cell and the effector site being present inside the cell. These receptors bind GDP and GTP. In response to ligand binding, GPCRs activate signal transduction pathways which induce a number of assayable physiological changes, e.g., an increase in intracellular calcium levels, cyclic-AMP, inositol phosphate turnover, and downstream gene transcription (directly or via reporter-assays) along with other translocation assays available for measuring GPCR activation when the polypeptide encoded by a gene of the invention is a GPCR. Thus, such proteins work through a second messenger.
  • assayable physiological changes e.g., an increase in intracellular calcium levels, cyclic-AMP, inositol phosphate turnover, and downstream gene transcription (directly or via reporter-assays) along with other translocation assays available for measuring GPCR activ
  • CREB CREB
  • BRET2/arrestin assay useful in screening for compounds that interact with GPCRs.
  • numerous assays are commercially available, such as the Transfluor Assay, available from Norak Biosciences, Inc. (www.norakbio.com) or ArrayScan and KineticScan, both from Cellomics, or assays from CyBio (Jena, Germany).
  • Assays useful with the invention are usually set up to screen for agonists or antagonists after adding ligand, but effects on most of these parameters can be measured whether or not the ligand for the receptor is known. Such assays may involve radioligand-binding assays. Activation of the majority of GPCRs by agonists leads to the interaction of beta-arrestin (a protein that is involved in receptor desensitization and sequestration) with the receptor, which is measurable by fluorescence energy transfer
  • journal articles, or other publications, referred to herein are hereby incorporated by reference in their entirety.
  • the polypeptide is in a solution or suspension and contact with the test compound is by direct contact between the test compound and the protein molecule.
  • the polypeptide may be in a cell and the test compound may have to diffuse into the cell in order to contact the polypeptide.
  • the test compound may be contacted with a cell that contains or expresses the polypeptide but the test compound may have no direct contact with the polypeptide.
  • the test compound may act to induce production and/or activity of a different compound, such as an intracellular second messenger that serves to contact the polypeptide and modulate or change the biological activity of this polypeptide.
  • the method of the present invention includes cancer modulating agents that are themselves either polypeptides, or small chemical entities, that affect the cancerous process, including initiation, suppression or facilitation of tumor growth, either in vivo or ex vivo.
  • agents may also be antibodies that react with one or more polypeptides encoded by genes as disclosed herein, preferably polypeptides comprising any one of the amino acid sequences of SEQ ID NO: 806-854.
  • the change in expression is a decrease in copy number of the gene or genes under study.
  • said change in gene copy number is conveniently determined by detecting a change in expression of messenger RNA encoded by said gene sequence.
  • expression is determined for more than one such gene, such as 2, 5, 10 or more of the genes.
  • polypeptide comprises an amino acid sequence highly homologous to a sequence for genes as identified in Table 1 (SEQ ID NO: 1-923).
  • the methods of the invention can thus be utilized to identify anti-neoplastic agents useful in treatment of cancerous conditions.
  • Such activity can be further modified by first identifying such an agent using an assay as already described and further contacting such agent with a cancerous cell, followed by monitoring of the status of said cell, or cells.
  • a change in status indicative of successful anti-neoplastic activity may include a decrease in the rate of replication of the cancerous cell(s), a decrease in the total number of progeny cells that can be produced by said cancerous cell(s), or a decrease in the number of times said cancerous cell(s) can replicate, or the death of said cancerous cell(s).
  • Anti-neoplastic agents may also be identified using recombinant cells suitably engineered to contain and express the cancer-related genes disclosed herein.
  • a recombinant cell is formed using standard technology and then utilized in the assays disclosed herein. Methods of forming such recombinant cells are well known in the literature. See, for example, Sambrook, et al., Molecular Cloning: A Laboratory Manual, Second Edition, Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y., (1989), Wu et al, Methods in Gene Biotechnology (CRC Press, New York, N.Y., 1997), and Recombinant Gene Expression Protocols , in Methods in Molecular Biology , Vol. 62, (Tuan, ed., Humana Press, Totowa, N.J., 1997), the disclosures of which are hereby incorporated by reference.
  • the present invention also relates to a method for detecting the cancerous status of a cell, comprising detecting elevated copy number and/or expression in said cell of at least one gene that maps to the chromosomal region of interest as identified in Table 1 (SEQ ID NO: 1-923).
  • elevated expression may be readily monitored by comparison to that of otherwise normal cells having the same genes. Elevated expression of these genes is indicative of the cancerous state.
  • This includes a gene corresponding to a polynucleotide that comprises a nucleotide sequence as identified in Table 1 (SEQ ID NO: 1-923).
  • Such elevated expression, including increased copy number may be the expression of more than one such gene.
  • the present invention also relates to a method for detecting a cancer-linked gene comprising the steps of contacting a compound identified as having gene modulating activity for a gene corresponding to a polynucleotide that comprises a nucleotide sequence as identified in Table 1 (SEQ ID NO: 1-923) with a cell expressing a test gene and detecting modulation, such as decreased activity, of such test gene relative to when said compound is not present thereby identifying said test gene as a cancer-related gene.
  • the gene determined by said method is an oncogene, or cancer facilitating gene.
  • a method for treating cancer comprising contacting a cancerous cell with an agent first identified as having gene modulating activity using any of the assay methods disclosed according to the invention and in an amount effective to reduce the cancerous activity of said cell.
  • the cancerous cell is contacted in vivo.
  • said reduction in cancerous activity is a decrease in the rate of proliferation of said cancerous cell, or said reduction in cancerous activity is the death of said cancerous cell.
  • the present invention further relates to a method for treating cancer comprising contacting a cancerous cell with an agent having activity against an expression product encoded by a gene corresponding to a polynucleotide comprising a nucleotide sequence as identified in Table 1 (SEQ ID NO: 1-923) where the product is a polypeptide, most preferably one comprising an amino acid sequence as identified in Table 1 (SEQ ID NO: 806-854).
  • said cancerous cell is contacted in vivo.
  • the agent is an antibody.
  • genes useful in the assay methods include genes mapping within chromosomal regions of interest and genes as identified in Table 1 (SEQ ID NO: 1-923), or a gene that encodes the same RNA, such as the same messenger RNA, whose corresponding cDNA is one of the sequences as identified in Table 1 (SEQ ID NO: 1-923).
  • the genes useful in the methods of the invention further include genes encoding RNAs whose corresponding cDNA is at least 90% identical to a sequence as identified in Table 1 (SEQ ID NO: 1-923), preferably at least about 95% identical to such a sequence, more preferably at least about 98% identical to such sequence and most preferably one comprising that sequence are specifically contemplated by all of the methods of the present invention.
  • sequences encoding the same proteins are also specifically contemplated by the invention.
  • sequences disclosed herein may be genomic in nature and thus represent the sequence of an actual gene, such as a human gene, or may be a cDNA sequence derived from a messenger RNA (mRNA) and thus represent contiguous exonic sequences derived from a corresponding genomic sequence or they may be wholly synthetic in origin for purposes of testing.
  • mRNA messenger RNA
  • the expression of these cancer-related genes is determined from the relative expression levels of the RNA complement of a cancerous cell relative to a normal (i.e., non-cancerous) cell. Because of the processing that may take place in transforming the initial RNA transcript into the final mRNA, the sequences disclosed herein may represent less than the full genomic sequence. They may also represent sequences derived from ribosomal and transfer RNAs.
  • genes present in the cell (and representing the genomic sequences) and the sequences disclosed herein, which are mostly cDNA sequences, may be identical or may be such that the cDNAs contain less than the full genomic sequence.
  • Such genes and cDNA sequences are still considered corresponding sequences because they both encode similar RNA sequences.
  • a gene that encodes an RNA transcript, which is then processed into a shorter mRNA is deemed to encode both such RNAs and therefore encodes an RNA complementary to (using the usual Watson-Crick complementarity rules), or that would otherwise be encoded by, a cDNA (for example, a sequence as disclosed herein).
  • sequences disclosed herein correspond to genes contained in the cancerous or normal cells used to determine relative levels of expression because they represent the same sequences or are complementary to RNAs encoded by these genes.
  • genes also include different alleles and splice variants that may occur in the cells used in the methods of the invention.
  • genes of the invention “correspond to” a polynucleotide having a sequence as identified in Table 1 (SEQ ID NO: 1-923) if the gene encodes an RNA (processed or unprocessed, including naturally occurring splice variants and alleles) that is at least 90% identical, preferably at least 95% identical, most preferably at least 98% identical to, and especially identical to, an RNA that would be encoded by, or be complementary to, such as by hybridization with, a polynucleotide having the indicated sequence.
  • RNA processed or unprocessed, including naturally occurring splice variants and alleles
  • genes including sequences at least 90% identical to a sequence as identified in Table 1 are specifically contemplated by all of the methods of the present invention as being genes that correspond to these sequences.
  • sequences encoding the same proteins as any of these sequences, regardless of the percent identity of such sequences are also specifically contemplated by any of the methods of the present invention that rely on any or all of said sequences, regardless of how they are otherwise described or limited. Thus, any such sequences are available for use in carrying out any of the methods disclosed according to the invention.
  • sequences also include any open reading frames, as defined herein, present within any of the sequences as identified in Table 1 (SEQ ID NO: 1-805 and 855-923).
  • the term “percent identity” or “percent identical,” when referring to a sequence means that a sequence is compared to a claimed or described sequence after alignment of the sequence to be compared (the “Compared Sequence”) with the described or claimed sequence (the “Reference Sequence”).
  • the Compared Sequence has the specified minimum percent identity to the Reference Sequence even though alignments may exist in which the hereinabove calculated Percent Identity is less than the specified Percent Identity.
  • portion when used in relation to polypeptides, refer to a continuous sequence of residues, such as amino acid residues, which sequence forms a subset of a larger sequence.
  • residues such as amino acid residues
  • fragment when used in relation to polypeptides, refer to a continuous sequence of residues, such as amino acid residues, which sequence forms a subset of a larger sequence.
  • the oligopeptides resulting from such treatment would represent portions, segments or fragments of the starting polypeptide.
  • polynucleotide When used in relation to a polynucleotide, such terms refer to the products produced by treatment of said polynucleotides with any of the common endonucleases, or any stretch of polynucleotides that could be synthetically synthesized.
  • DNA segment refers to a DNA polymer, in the form of a separate fragment or as a component of a larger DNA construct, which has been derived from DNA, and may include both single stranded and duplex sequences. Such segments are provided in the form of an open reading frame uninterrupted by internal non-translated sequences, or introns, which are typically present in eukaryotic genes.
  • coding region refers to that portion of a gene which either naturally or normally codes for the expression product of that gene in its natural genomic environment, i.e., the region coding in vivo for the native expression product of the gene.
  • nucleotide sequence refers to a heteropolymer of deoxyribonucleotides.
  • DNA segments encoding the proteins provided by this invention are assembled from cDNA fragments and short oligonucleotide linkers, or from a series of oligonucleotides, to provide a synthetic gene which is capable of being expressed in a recombinant transcriptional unit comprising regulatory elements derived from a microbial or viral operon.
  • expression product means that polypeptide or protein that is the natural translation product of the gene and any nucleic acid sequence coding equivalents resulting from genetic code degeneracy and thus coding for the same amino acid(s).
  • fragment when referring to a coding sequence, means a portion of DNA comprising less than the complete coding region whose expression product retains essentially the same biological function or activity as the expression product of the complete coding region.
  • the present invention also finds use as a means of diagnosing the presence of cancer in a patient, as where a sample of cancerous tissues or cells, or tissues or cells suspected of being cancerous.
  • diagnosis is based on the detection of elevated expression or amplification, such as elevated copy number, of one or more of the genes identified according to the invention.
  • elevated expression can be determined by any of the means described herein.
  • the elevated expression as compared to normal cells and/or tissues of the same organ, is determined by measuring the relative rates of transcription of RNA, such as by production of corresponding cDNAs and then analyzing the resulting DNA using probes developed from the gene sequences as identified in Table 1.
  • RNA Ribonucleic acid
  • the levels of cDNA produced by use of reverse transcriptase with the full RNA complement of a cell suspected of being cancerous produces a corresponding amount of cDNA that can then be amplified using polymerase chain reaction, or some other means, such as rolling circle amplification, to determine the relative levels of resulting cDNA and, thereby, the relative levels of gene expression.
  • RNA analysis the latter may be isolated from samples in a variety of ways, including lysis and denaturation with a phenolic solution containing a chaotropic agent (e.g., triazol) followed by isopropanol precipitation, ethanol wash, and resuspension in aqueous solution; or lysis and denaturation followed by isolation on solid support, such as a Qiagen resin and reconstitution in aqueous solution; or lysis and denaturation in non-phenolic, aqueous solutions followed by enzymatic conversion of RNA to DNA template copies.
  • a chaotropic agent e.g., triazol
  • Steady state RNA levels for a given type of cell or tissue may have to be ascertained prior to employment of the methods of the invention but such is well within the skill of those in the art and will not be further described in detail herein.
  • increased expression such as increased copy number
  • a cancerous cell or a cell suspected of being cancerous
  • the DNA of such cells may be extracted and probed using the sequences disclosed herein for the presence in the genomes of such cells of increased amounts of one or more of the genes of the invention.
  • a cancer-related, or cancer-linked, gene as disclosed herein is found to be present in multiple copies within the genome of a cell, even where it may not be actively being over-expressed at the time of such determination, this may be indicative of at least a disposition toward developing cancer at a subsequent time.
  • probes may be composed of DNA or RNA and may advantageously be comprised of a contiguous stretch of nucleotide residues matching, or complementary to, a sequence as identified in Table 1.
  • probes will most usefully comprise a contiguous stretch of at least 15, preferably at least 30, more preferably at least 50, most preferably at least 80, and especially at least 100, even 200 residues, derived from one or more of the sequences as identified in Table 1.
  • a single probe binds multiple times to the genome of a sample of cells that are cancerous, or are suspected of being cancerous, or predisposed to become cancerous
  • binding of the same probe to a similar amount of DNA derived from the genome of otherwise non-cancerous cells of the same organ or tissue results in observably less binding
  • this is indicative of the presence of multiple copies of a gene comprising, or corresponding to, the sequence as identified in Table 1 from which the probe sequenced was derived.
  • Increased expression may also be determined using agents that selectively bind to, and thereby detect, the presence of expression products of the genes disclosed herein.
  • an antibody possibly a suitably labeled antibody, such as where the antibody is bound to a fluorescent or radiolabel, may be generated against one of the polypeptides comprising a sequence as identified in Table 1 (serial number 1-229 (breast), 230-440 (colon), 441-656 (lung) and 657-805 (prostate); for polypeptide SEQ ID NOs, see Table 1, serial number 806-923 (transcript or protein)), and said antibody will then react with, binding either selectively or specifically, to a polypeptide encoded by one of the genes that corresponds to a sequence disclosed herein.
  • Such antibody binding can then be used as a measure of the extent of expression, or over-expression, of the cancer-related genes identified herein.
  • the genes identified herein as being over-expressed in cancerous cells and tissues may be over-expressed due to increased copy number, or due to over-transcription, such as where the over-expression is due to over-production of a transcription factor that activates the gene and leads to repeated binding of RNA polymerase, thereby generating large than normal amounts of RNA transcripts, which are subsequently translated into polypeptides, such as the polypeptides comprising amino acid sequences as identified in table 1)SEQ ID NO: 1-923).
  • Such analysis provides an additional means of ascertaining the expression of the genes identified according to the invention and thereby determining the presence of a cancerous state in a sample derived from a patient to be tested, of the predisposition to develop cancer at a subsequent time in said patient.
  • a set of selected genes comprising sequences homologous under stringent conditions, or at least 90%, preferably 95%, identical to at least one of the sequences as identified in Table 1, may be found, using appropriate probes, either DNA or RNA, to be present in as little as 60% of cells derived from a sample of tumorous, or malignant, tissue while being absent from as much as 60% of cells derived from corresponding non-cancerous, or otherwise normal, tissue (and thus being present in as much as 40% of such normal tissue cells).
  • such gene pattern is found to be present in at least 70% of cells drawn from a cancerous tissue and absent from at least 70% of a corresponding normal, non-cancerous, tissue sample.
  • such gene pattern is found to be present in at least 80% of cells drawn from a cancerous tissue and absent from at least 80% of a corresponding normal, non-cancerous, tissue sample. In a most preferred embodiment, such gene pattern is found to be present in at least 90% of cells drawn from a cancerous tissue and absent from at least 90% of a corresponding normal, non-cancerous, tissue sample. In an additional embodiment, such gene pattern is found to be present in at least 100% of cells drawn from a cancerous tissue and absent from at least 100% of a corresponding normal, non-cancerous, tissue sample, although the latter embodiment may represent a rare occurrence.
  • the present invention relates to a method for determining a cancer initiating or facilitating gene comprising contacting a cell expressing a test gene (i.e., a gene whose status as a cancer initiating or facilitating gene is to be determined) with an agent that decreases the expression of a gene that encodes an RNA at least 90%, preferably 95%, identical to an RNA encoded by (i.e., a gene corresponding to) a polynucleotide comprising, or having, a sequence selected from the group consisting as identified in Table 1 and detecting a decrease in expression of said test gene compared to when said agent is not present, thereby identifying said test gene as being a cancer initiating or facilitating gene.
  • Such genes may, of course, be oncogenes and said decrease in expression may be due to a decrease in copy number of said gene in said cell or a cell derived from said cell, such as where copy number is reduced in the cells formed by replication of such cells.
  • genes disclosed herein as corresponding to as identified in Table 1 are found to play a direct role in the initiation or progression of cancer or even other diseases and disease processes. Because changes in expression of these genes (up-regulation) are linked to the disease state (i.e. cancer), the change in expression may contribute to the initiation or progression of the disease. For example, if a gene that is up-regulated is an oncogene such a gene provides for a means of screening for small molecule therapeutics beyond screens based upon expression output alone. For example, genes that display up-regulation in cancer and whose elevated expression contributes to initiation or progression of disease represent targets in screens for small molecules that inhibit or block their function. Examples include, but are not be limited to, kinase inhibition, cellular proliferation, substrate analogs that block the active site of protein targets, etc.
  • genes there are a variety of different contexts in which genes have been evaluated as being involved in the cancerous process. Thus, some genes may be oncogenes and encode proteins that are directly involved in the cancerous process and thereby promote the occurrence of cancer in an animal. Other genes may simply be involved either directly or indirectly in the cancerous process or condition and may serve in an ancillary capacity with respect to the cancerous state. All such types of genes are deemed with those to be determined in accordance with the invention as disclosed herein.
  • the gene determined by said method of the invention may be an oncogene, or the gene determined by said method may be a cancer facilitating gene, the latter including a gene that directly or indirectly affects the cancerous process, either in the promotion of a cancerous condition or in facilitating the progress of cancerous growth or otherwise modulating the growth of cancer cells, either in vivo or ex vivo.
  • Such genes may work indirectly where their expression alters the activity of some other gene or gene expression product that is itself directly involved in initiating or facilitating the progress of a cancerous condition.
  • a gene that encodes a polypeptide, either wild or mutant in type, which polypeptide acts to suppress of tumor suppressor gene, or its expression product will thereby act indirectly to promote tumor growth.
  • the method of the present invention includes cancer modulating agents that are themselves either polypeptides, or small chemical entities, that affect the cancerous process, including initiation, suppression or facilitation of tumor growth, either in vivo or ex vivo.
  • agents may also be antibodies that react with one or more of the polypeptides as identified in Table 1 ((SEQ ID NO: 806-923 (transcript or protein)).
  • the present invention also relates to a method for treating cancer comprising contacting a cancerous cell with an agent having activity against an expression product encoded by a gene mapping within regions of chromosomal interest or, alternatively, a gene corresponding to a polynucleotide that comprises a nucleotide sequence as identified in Table 1, such as where such expression product is one the polypeptides as identified in Table 1.
  • the method of the present invention includes embodiments of the above-recited method wherein said cancer cell is contacted in vivo as well as ex vivo, preferably wherein said agent comprises a portion, or is part of an overall molecular structure, having affinity for said expression product.
  • said portion having affinity for said expression product is an antibody.
  • a chemical agent such as a protein or other polypeptide
  • an agent such as an antibody
  • an expression product of a cancerous cell such as a polypeptide or protein encoded by a gene related to the cancerous process, especially a gene sequence corresponding to one of the cDNA sequences as identified in Table 1.
  • said expression product acts as a therapeutic target for the affinity portion of said anticancer agent and where, after binding of the affinity portion of such agent to the expression product, the anti-cancer portion of said agent acts against said expression product so as to neutralize its effects in initiating, facilitating or promoting tumor formation and/or growth.
  • binding of the agent to said expression product may, without more, have the effect of deterring cancer promotion, facilitation or growth, especially where the presence of said expression product is related, either intimately or only in an ancillary manner, to the development and growth of a tumor.
  • binding of said agent to said expression product will have the effect of negating said tumor promoting activity.
  • said agent is an apoptosis-inducing agent that induces cell suicide, thereby killing the cancer cell and halting tumor growth.
  • chromosomal rearrangements typically represent translocations, amplifications, or deletions of specific regions of genomic DNA.
  • a recurrent chromosomal rearrangement that is associated with a specific stage and type of cancer always affects a gene (or possibly genes) that play a direct and critical role in the initiation or progression of the disease.
  • Many of the known oncogenes or tumor suppressor genes that play direct roles in cancer have either been initially identified based upon their positional cloning from a recurrent chromosomal rearrangement or have been demonstrated to fall within a rearrangement subsequent to their cloning by other methods. In all cases, such genes display amplification at both the level of DNA copy number and at the level of transcriptional expression at the mRNA level.
  • the present method also relates to a method for determining functionally related genes comprising contacting one or more gene sequences corresponding to the cDNAs as identified in Table 1 with an agent that modulates expression of more than one gene in such group and thereby determining a subset of genes of said group.
  • said functionally related genes are genes modulating the same metabolic pathway or said genes are genes encoding functionally related polypeptides.
  • said genes are genes whose expression is modulated by the same transcriptional activator or enhancer sequence, especially where said transcriptional activator or enhancer increases, or otherwise modulates, the activity of a gene corresponding to a cDNA as identified in Table 1.
  • the present invention also relates to a process that comprises a method for producing a product comprising identifying an agent according to one of the disclosed methods for identifying such an agent (i.e., the therapeutic agents identified according to the assay procedures disclosed herein) wherein said product is the data collected with respect to said agent as a result of said identification process, or assay, and wherein said data is sufficient to convey the chemical character and/or structure and/or properties of said agent.
  • identifying an agent i.e., the therapeutic agents identified according to the assay procedures disclosed herein
  • said product is the data collected with respect to said agent as a result of said identification process, or assay, and wherein said data is sufficient to convey the chemical character and/or structure and/or properties of said agent.
  • the present invention specifically contemplates a situation whereby a user of an assay of the invention may use the assay to screen for compounds having the desired enzyme modulating activity and, having identified the compound, then conveys that information (i.e., information as to structure, dosage, etc) to another user who then utilizes the information to reproduce the agent and administer it for therapeutic or research purposes according to the invention.
  • information i.e., information as to structure, dosage, etc
  • the user of the assay may screen a number of test compounds without knowing the structure or identity of the compounds (such as where a number of code numbers are used the first user is simply given samples labeled with said code numbers) and, after performing the screening process, using one or more assay processes of the present invention, then imparts to a second user (user 2), verbally or in writing or some equivalent fashion, sufficient. information to identify the compounds having a particular modulating activity (for example, the code number with the corresponding results).
  • This transmission of information from user 1 to user 2 is specifically contemplated by the present invention.
  • the present invention relates to a method for producing test data with respect to the anti-neoplastic activity of a compound comprising:
  • the present invention provides a method for monitoring the progress of a cancer treatment, such as where the methods of the invention permit a determination that a given course of cancer therapy is or is not proving effective because of an increased or decreased expression of a gene, or genes, disclosed herein.
  • a method for monitoring the progress of a cancer treatment such as where the methods of the invention permit a determination that a given course of cancer therapy is or is not proving effective because of an increased or decreased expression of a gene, or genes, disclosed herein.
  • monitoring of such genes can predict success or failure of a course of therapy, such as chemotherapy, or predict the likelihood of a relapse based on elevated activity or expression of one or more of these genes following such course of therapy.
  • the present invention contemplates a method for determining the progress of a treatment for cancer in a patient afflicted with cancer, following commencement of a cancer treatment on said patient, comprising:
  • the detected change in expression is a decrease in expression.
  • the cancer treatment is treatment with a chemotherapeutic agent, especially an agent that modulates, preferably decreases, expression of a gene identified herein, such as where said agent was first identified as having anti-neoplastic activity using a method of the invention.
  • a patient, or even a research animal, such as a mouse, rat, rabbit or primate, afflicted with cancer, including a cancer induced for research purposes is introduced to a cancer treatment regimen, such as administration of an anti-cancer agent, including one first identified as having anti-neoplastic activity by one or more of the screening methods disclosed herein.
  • the progress and success or failure of such treatment is subsequently ascertained by determining the subsequent expression of one or more, preferably at least 3, or 5, or 10, of the genes identified herein, or that encodes a transcript or polypeptide disclosed herein (see Table 1) following said treatment.
  • a treatment that reduces said expression is deemed advantageous and may then be the basis for continuing said treatment.
  • the methods of the invention thereby provide a means of continually monitoring the success of the treatment and evaluating both the need, and desirability, of continuing said treatment.
  • more than one said treatment may be administered simultaneously without diminishing the value of the methods of the invention in determining the overall success of such combined treatment.
  • more than one said anti-neoplastic agent may be administered to the same patient and overall effectiveness ascertained by the recited methods.
  • the present invention also contemplates a method for determining the likelihood of survival of a patient afflicted with cancer, following commencement of a cancer treatment on said patient, comprising:
  • the detected change in expression is a decrease in expression and said determined gene, or genes, may include 2, 3, 5, 10 or more of the genes described herein.
  • the methods of the invention may be utilized as a means for compiling cancer survival statistics following one or more, possibly combined, treatments for cancer as in keeping with the other methods disclosed herein.
  • the genes identified herein also offer themselves as pharmacodynamic markers (or as pharmacogenetic and/or surrogate markers), such as for patient profiling prior to clinical trials and/or targeted therapies, including combination treatments, resulting from the identification of these genes as valid gene targets for chemotherapy based on the screening procedures of the invention.
  • the likelihood of success of a cancer treatment with a selected chemotherapeutic agent may be based on the fact that such agent has been determined to have expression modulating activity with one or more genes identified herein, especially where said genes have been identified as showing elevated expression levels in samples from a prospective patient afflicted with cancer. Methods described elsewhere herein for determining cancerous status of a cell may find ready use in such evaluations.
  • any reference to particular buffers, media, reagents, cells, culture conditions and the like are not intended to be limiting, but are to be read so as to include all related materials that one of ordinary skill in the art would recognize as being of interest or value in the particular context in which that discussion is presented. For example, it is often possible to substitute one buffer system or culture medium for another and still achieve similar, if not identical, results. Those of skill in the art will have sufficient knowledge of such systems and methodologies so as to be able, without undue experimentation, to make such substitutions as will optimally serve their purposes in using the methods and procedures disclosed herein.
  • Cancerous cells that over-express one or more of the genes selected from those that correspond to genes as identified in Table 1 are grown to a density of 10 5 cells/cm2 in Leibovitz's L-15 medium supplemented with 2 mM L-glutamine (90%) and 10% fetal bovine serum.
  • the cells are collected after treatment with 0.25% trypsin, 0.02% EDTA at 37° C. for 2 to 5 minutes.
  • the trypsinized cells are then diluted with 30 ml growth medium and plated at a density of 50,000 cells per well in a 96 well plate (200 ⁇ l/well). The following day, cells are treated with either compound buffer alone, or compound buffer containing a chemical agent to be tested, for 24 hours. The media is then removed, the cells lysed and the RNA recovered using the RNAeasy reagents and protocol obtained from Qiagen.
  • RNA is quantitated and 10 ng of sample in 1 ⁇ l are added to 24 ⁇ l of Taqman reaction mix containing 1X PCR buffer, RNAsin, reverse transcriptase, nucleoside triphosphates, amplitaq gold, tween 20, glycerol, bovine serum albumin (BSA) and specific PCR primers and probes for a reference gene (18S RNA) and a test gene (Gene X). Reverse transcription is then carried out at 48° C. for 30 minutes. The sample is then applied to a Perlin Elmer 7700 sequence detector and heat denatured for 10 minutes at 95° C. Amplification is performed through 40 cycles using 15 seconds annealing at 60° C. followed by a 60 second extension at 72° C. and 30 second denaturation at 95° C. Data files are then captured and the data analyzed with the appropriate baseline windows and thresholds.
  • 1X PCR buffer
  • RNAsin reverse transcriptase
  • nucleoside triphosphates amplita
  • the quantitative difference between the target and reference genes is then calculated and a relative expression value determined for all of the samples used. This procedure is then repeated for each of the target genes in a given signature, or characteristic, set and the relative expression ratios for each pair of genes is determined (i.e., a ratio of expression is determined for each target gene versus each of the other genes for which expression is measured, where each gene's absolute expression is determined relative to the reference gene for each compound, or chemical agent, to be screened).
  • the samples are then scored and ranked according to the degree of alteration of the expression profile in the treated samples relative to the control.
  • the overall expression of the set of genes relative to the controls, as modulated by one chemical agent relative to another, is also ascertained.

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Abstract

Methods for identifying potential therapeutic agents, such as anti-tumor agents, based on their modulation of the expression of specified genes, especially genes mapping to specific chromosomal regions, are disclosed. Also described are methods for diagnosing cancerous, or potentially cancerous, conditions as a result of the expression, or patterns of expression, of such genes, including detecting changes in levels of gene copy number and/or level of amplification of the said gene, or sets of genes, to detect and/or diagnose the cancer. Methods for detecting or determining functionally related genes, as well as methods for treating cancer based on targeting expression products of such genes, determining genes involved in the cancerous process and the success and/or response rates and survival statistics for cancer patients on treatment are encompassed by the invention. Also encompassed are methods involving determining the modulated expression of the genes in these regions of interest (ROIs) as pharmacodynamic/pharmacogenetic /surrogate markers and/or for patient profiling prior to accrual for clinical trials/treatments based on the identification of these genes as validated gene/drug targets in various cancer tissue types.

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  • This application claims priority of U.S. Provisional Application Ser. No. 60/462,895, filed 15 Apr. 2003, the disclosure of which is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety.
  • FIELD OF THE INVENTION
  • The present invention relates to identification of genes whose disruption and/or change in expression is useful to distinguish cancerous from non-cancerous tissue and serve as potential therapeutic targets, pharmacodynamic/pharmacogenetic/surrogate and prognostic and diagnostic markers, and which genes are identified by high resolution Comparative Genomic Hybridization (CGH) and Spectral Karyotyping (SKY)/fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH) analysis of DNA and chromosomes of various cancer cell lines and primary and metastatic tumor samples combined with gene expression analysis of these cells and tissues.
  • BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
  • Chromosomal abnormalities have been identified in most cancer cells.
  • Conventional chromosome banding techniques allow for the detection of specific chromosomal defects in tumor cells but interpretation of the banding pattern is sometimes difficult, particularly when complex chromosomal rearrangements or subtle abnormalities are present. In recent years, new techniques, such as CGH and SKY, based on fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH) (Pinkel et al., Proc Nat Acad Sci USA 85:9138-42 (1988)) have been developed to overcome the limitations of conventional chromosome banding. CGH measures intensities of fluorescently labeled tumor DNA and normal DNA following hybridization to normal chromosomes (Kallioniemi et al., Science 258:818-21 (1992)). Gain or loss of copy number of a particular chromosome or chromosome region in the tumor DNA is determined by the relative intensity of a fluorescence ratio. SKY utilizes a cocktail of chromosome probes, fluorescently labeled to specify each chromosome, which is hybridized to tumor chromosomes in an effort to identify numerical and structural abnormalities in the tumor cell (Schröck et al., Science 273:494-7 (1996)). CGH and SKY have been used to identify chromosomal regions that harbor genes significant to the process of tumor initiation or progression.
  • BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
  • In one aspect the present invention relates to a set of genes that have been localized within human chromosomal regions of interest (ROI) that have been identified by molecular cytogenetic techniques.
  • In one aspect, the present invention relates to a method for diagnosing cancer in a mammal, especially a human patient, comprising determining amplification of a gene in the genome of a mammal wherein said gene is a gene of Table 1.
  • In a preferred embodiment thereof, the cancer is a member selected from breast cancer, colon cancer, lung cancer, prostate cancer, ovarian cancer, pancreatic cancer, cervical cancer and kidney cancer.
  • In another preferred embodiment thereof, 3. The method of claim 1 wherein said gene of Table 1 is a gene that encodes the same gene product as a polynucleotide selected from the polynucleotides of SEQ ID NO: 1-805 and 855-923.
  • In another embodiment, the present invention relates to a method for diagnosing cancer or a pre-cancerous condition in a mammal, comprising:
  • (a) obtaining a cell or tissue sample from a mammal, especially a human patient, suspected of having cancer or a pre-cancerous condition and determining for said sample the gene copy number of a gene of Table 1;
  • (b) comparing said gene copy number of step (a) to the gene copy number of the same gene from a sample of a corresponding cell or tissue from a mammal of the same species not having cancer of the type being diagnosed whereby a higher gene copy number determined in step (a) relative to that in step (b) indicates the presence of a cancer or pre-cancerous condition in the mammal of step (a) and results in a diagnosis of cancer or a pre-cancerous condition in said mammal.
  • In a preferred embodiment of the methods of the invention, said molecule is a member selected from an antisense DNA, an antisense RNA, a ribozyme and an siRNA.
  • In another embodiment, the present invention relates to a method for identifying an agent having therapeutic activity in a human patient in need of said therapeutic activity, comprising:
  • (a) determining in a sample from a patient the level of a gene product encoded by a gene of Table 1 prior to administering a test compound to said patient;
  • (b) administering said test compound to said patient;
  • (c) determining in a sample from said patient the level of a gene product encoded by the same the gene as in step (a)
  • wherein a decrease in the level of said gene product in step (c) relative to step (a) identifies said test compound as an agent having therapeutic activity.
  • In a further embodiment, the present invention relates to a method for identifying an antineoplastic agent, comprising:
  • (a) contacting a test compound with a cell that expresses a gene of Table 1; and
  • (b) determining a change in gene expression as a result of said contacting;
  • whereby said change in said gene expression identifies said test compound as an antineoplastic agent.
  • The present invention also relates to a method for determining the cancerous status of a cell, comprising determining elevated expression in said cell of a gene of Table 1 wherein elevated expression of said gene indicates that said cell is cancerous.
  • In an additional embodiment, the present invention relates to a method for identifying a compound as an anti-neoplastic agent, comprising:
  • (a) contacting a test compound with a polypeptide encoded by a gene of Table 1,
  • (b) determining a change in a biological activity of said polypeptide due to said contacting,
  • wherein a change in activity identifies said test compound as an agent having antineoplastic activity.
  • In a preferred embodiment of the foregoing, the polypeptide is an enzyme selected from kinase, protease, peptidase, phosphodiesterase, phosphatase, dehydrogenase, reductase, carboxylase. transferase, deacetylase and polymerase.
  • The present invention also relates to a method for identifying an anti-neoplastic agent comprising contacting a cancerous cell with a compound found to have anti-neoplastic activity in other the methods of the invention under conditions promoting the growth of said cell and detecting a change in the activity of said cancerous cell.
  • The present invention further relates to a method for treating cancer comprising contacting a cancerous cell with an agent having affinity for an expression product of a gene of Table 1 and in an amount effective to cause a reduction in cancerous activity of said cell.
  • The present invention also contemplates a method for monitoring the progress of cancer therapy in a patient comprising monitoring in a patient undergoing cancer therapy the expression of a gene of Table 1.
  • In addition, the present invention encompasses a method for determining the likelihood of success of cancer therapy in a patient, comprising monitoring in a patient undergoing cancer therapy the expression of a gene of Table 1 wherein a decrease in said expression prior to completion of said cancer therapy is indicative of a likelihood of success of said cancer therapy.
  • In another embodiment, the present invention relates to a method for producing test data with respect to the anti-neoplastic activity of a compound comprising:
  • (a) identifying a test compound as having anti-neoplastic activity using other methods of the invention;
  • (b) producing test data with respect to the anti-neoplastic activity of said test compound sufficient to identify the chemical structure of said test compound.
  • Additionally, the present invention encompasses a method for determining the progress of a treatment for cancer in a patent afflicted therewith, following commencement of a cancer treatment on said patient, comprising:
  • (a) determining in said patient a change in expression of one or more genes of Table 1; and
  • (b) determining a change in expression of said gene compared to expression of said one or more determined genes prior to said cancer treatment;
  • wherein said change in expression indicates progress of said treatment thereby determining the progress of said treatment.
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  • The sequences disclosed herein as SEQ ID NO: 1-923 in the sequence listing are contained on compact disc (CD-ROM) only, which accompanies this application and the contents of said CD-ROMs are hereby incorporated by reference in their entirety. These sequence numbers also appear in Table where all sequences are referred to as consecutive serial numbers for reference purposes only.
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  • The present invention relates to a set of genes that are amplified and/or over-expressed genes in cancer cell lines and have been localized to various chromosomal regions of interest. These genes have been identified through a combination of CGH, SKY, expression analysis and Reverse Transcriptase-Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR). Such genes are both markers and potential therapeutic targets for cancer, in particular breast, colon, lung and prostate malignancies. In addition, the amplified nature of such genes provides a means of diagnosing a cancerous condition, or predisposition to a cancerous conditions, by determining the amplification of one or more of such genes in a patient afflicted with, or predisposed toward, or otherwise at risk of developing, cancer.
  • In accordance with the present invention, a number of genes have been localized to a chromosomal regions of interest as identified in Table 1 (serial number 1-229 (breast), 230-440 (colon), 441-656 (lung) and 657-805 (prostate), serial number 806-923 (transcript or protein)). The invention also includes any subsets of these. As described herein, these sequences include DNA sequences of SEQ ID NO: 1-805, transcripts with the sequences of SEQ ID NO: 855-923, and proteins/polypeptides with amino acid sequences of SEQ ID NO: 806-854.
  • Briefly, the procedures used to identify the genes disclosed herein may be summarized as follows:
  • For CGH analysis, based on detailed molecular cytogenetic characterizations, the following data sets are generated, which may include regions reported in the public domain as well as unique regions not previously known.
    • 1. A map of chromosomal regions involved in consistent, recurrent and high level genomic gains (i.e., amplifications) for a representative cancer cell line or tumor type (e.g. colon, prostate, breast and lung) that can be recognized as a pattern/signature for a given tumor type.
    • 2. A map of chromosomal regions containing genomic losses (i.e., deletions) in each tumor type and individual cell line to be examined.
    • 3. Levels of intensities of gains and losses categorized for entry into a database.
    • 4. A comparison of the patterns of gains and losses between the clinical samples (e.g. colon xenografts) and cell lines (e.g., colon) of matched Stages and Grades.
    • 5. A comparison of the patterns of gains and losses between primary prostate tumor cell lines (e.g., CPDR lines) and metastatic prostate tumor cell lines (e.g., DU 145, PC3 and LNCaP).
  • In accordance with the present invention, for SKY analysis, data sets were generated according to the following steps:
    • 1. Identification and development of a database of novel chromosomal rearrangements in epithelial cancer cell lines.
    • 2. Identification of novel translocations involving specific chromosomes or chromosomal regions
    • 3. Reconciliation of SKY and CGH analysis on the same cell line as a verification of the combined findings.
  • Combining genomic DNA analysis of gains and losses in the tumor cell lines/clinical samples with cDNA expression analysis from matched tumor types displayed on a genome template from the Golden Path genome browser using a Spotfire™ analysis tool:
    • 1. A pattern of gene expression on a U-95 Affymatix chip set obtained via the Gene Logic database was used to generate differential gene expression profiles between samples sets containing normal and. malignant tissues from colon, prostate, lung, breast and various cell lines.
    • 2. A Spotfire™ visualization tool was developed that allowed the generation of a list of all the genes that are present in the Golden Path within the clustered regions of gains/losses for each cell type/tumor type to generate the gene sets to include in the HITS platform
    • 3. The following algorithm was employed:
      • i) Match chromosomal regions of amplification/gains defined by CGH with the location of genes/ESTs on an Affymatix chip as mapped to a Golden Path genome template.
      • ii) Identify genes/ESTs over-expressed in tumor tissue compared to normal tissue in said chromosomal regions using the Gene Logic database.
      • iii) Compile data on cell lines of a particular tumor type and different tumor types showing clusters of genomic gains and losses at certain chromosomal regions.
      • iv) Pick BACs that span the chromosomal regions consistently gained and containing over-expressed genes in an effort to positionally clone novel cancer genes (oncogenes and genes in relevant pathways)
      • v) Validate the identified genes by
        • A) Picking STS markers that identify the gene sequence and quantify the relative copy number in genomic DNA and RNA across a panel of tumor cell lines.
        • B) Develop probes for FISH on chromosomes from tumor cell lines and primary tumor tissue micro-arrays.
    • 4. The expression data from tumor cell lines that have undergone SKY/CGH analysis was used to pick candidate genes to validate as individual targets in functional genomic assays and in-vivo assays and for use in the transcriptional assay platform.
  • In accordance with the present invention, over-expression of cellular genes is conveniently monitored in model cellular systems using cell lines (such as is used in the example below), primary cells, or tissue samples maintained in growth media. For different purposes, these may be treated with compounds at one or more different concentrations to assay for modulating agents. Thus, cellular. RNAs were isolated from the cells or cultures as an indicator of selected gene expression. The cellular RNAs were then divided and subjected to analysis that detected the presence and/or quantity of specific RNA transcripts, which transcripts were then amplified for detection purposes using standard methodologies, such as reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). The levels of specific RNA transcripts, including their presence or absence, were determined. When used for identification of modulating agents, such as ant-neoplastic agents, a metric is derived for the type and degree of response of the treated sample compared to control samples.
  • In accordance with the foregoing, the genes identified as being amplified and/or over-expressed, which can include increased copy number thereof, in cancerous cells are localized in chromosomal regions of interest as identified in Table 1 (serial number 1-229 (breast), 230440 (colon), 441-656 (lung) and 657-805 (prostate); for polypeptide SEQ ID NOs, see Table 1, serial number 806-923 (transcript or protein)).
  • These genes may be utilized to characterize, the cancerous, or non-cancerous, status of cells, or tissues. The methods of the invention may be used with a variety of cell lines or with primary samples from tumors maintained in vitro under suitable culture conditions for varying periods of time, or in situ in suitable animal models.
  • The genes disclosed herein are expressed at levels in cancer cells that are different from the expression levels in non-cancer cells. These genes as identified in Table 1 are amplified in cancer cells relative to non-cancer cells of corresponding tissues, especially breast cancer, colon cancer, lung cancer, prostate cancer, ovarian cancer, pancreatic cancer, cervical cancer and kidney cancer.
  • In accordance with the foregoing, the present invention relates to a method for diagnosing cancer in a mammal, comprising determining amplification of a gene in the genome of a mammal wherein said gene is a gene of Table 1.
  • In a preferred embodiment thereof, said gene of Table 1 is a gene that encodes the same gene product as a polynucleotide selected from the polynucleotides of SEQ ID NO: 1-805 and 855-923. In a further preferred embodiment, said mammal is a human patient.
  • The present invention is also directed to a method for diagnosing cancer or a pre-cancerous condition in a mammal, preferably a human patient, comprising:
  • (a) obtaining a cell or tissue sample from a mammal suspected of having cancer or a pre-cancerous condition and determining for said sample the gene copy number of a gene of Table 1;
  • (b) comparing said gene copy number of step (a) to the gene copy number of the same gene from a sample of a corresponding cell or tissue from a mammal of the same species not having cancer of the type being diagnosed
  • whereby a higher gene copy number determined in step (a) relative to that in step (b) indicates the presence of a cancer or pre-cancerous condition in the mammal of step (a) and results in a diagnosis of cancer or a pre-cancerous condition in said mammal.
  • In specific embodiments, the cancer to be diagnosed is one or more of breast cancer, colon cancer, lung cancer, prostate cancer, ovarian cancer, pancreatic cancer, cervical cancer and kidney cancer.
  • Preferably, the gene of Table 1 is a gene that encodes the same gene product as a polynucleotide of SEQ ID NO: 1-805 and 855-923.
  • The present invention is also directed to a method of inhibiting cancer, or a pre-cancerous condition, in a mammalian cell, comprising contacting said cell with a molecule that inhibits function of a gene of Table 1. Preferably, the gene of Table 1 is a gene that encodes the same gene product as a polynucleotide of SEQ ID NO: 1-805 and 855-923. In a specific embodiment thereof, said molecule inhibits gene function by binding to said gene. In other embodiments, the molecule inhibits gene function by binding to an RNA encoded by said gene or inhibits gene function by binding to polypeptide encoded by said gene. Preferably, the molecule is a member selected from an antisense DNA, an antisense RNA, a ribozyme and an siRNA. Also preferred is where the cancer is a member selected from breast cancer, colon cancer, lung cancer, prostate cancer, ovarian cancer, pancreatic cancer, cervical cancer and kidney cancer.
  • The invention contemplates that such contacting occurs in vivo.
  • The invention also relates to a method for identifying an agent having therapeutic activity in a human patient in need of said therapeutic activity, comprising:
  • (a) determining in a sample from a patient the level of a gene product encoded by a gene of Table 1 prior to administering a test compound to said patient;
  • (b) administering said test compound to said patient;
  • (c) determining in a sample from said patient the level of a gene product encoded by the same the gene as in step (a)
  • wherein a decrease in the level of said gene product in step (c) relative to step (a) identifies said test compound as an agent having therapeutic activity.
  • Preferably, said therapeutic activity is anticancer activity and said cancer is one or more of breast cancer, colon cancer, lung cancer, prostate cancer, ovarian cancer, pancreatic cancer, cervical cancer and kidney cancer.
  • Also preferred is where said gene product is an RNA or a polypeptide, especially where an activity of the polypeptide is determined, preferably an enzyme activity. In specific embodiments, said gene of Table 1 is a gene that encodes the same gene product as a polynucleotide of SEQ ID NO: 1-805 and 855-923, as well as where said molecule is a member selected from an antisense DNA, an antisense RNA, a ribozyme and an siRNA.
  • The present invention also relates to a method for identifying an antineoplastic agent, comprising:
  • (a) contacting a test compound with a cell that expresses a gene of Table 1; and
  • (b) determining a change in gene expression as a result of said contacting;
  • whereby said change in said gene expression identifies said test compound as an antineoplastic agent.
  • Most preferred is where the change in expression is a decrease in expression. The contacting may occur in vivo. Also preferred is where said gene of Table 1 encodes the same gene product as a polynucleotide of SEQ ID NO: 1-805 and 855-923 and where said molecule is a member selected from an antisense DNA, an antisense RNA, ribozyme, an siRNA, a small organic molecule and an antibody.
  • The present invention also relates to a method for determining the cancerous status of a cell, comprising determining elevated expression in said cell of a gene of Table 1 wherein elevated expression of said gene indicates that said cell is cancerous. Preferably, wherein said elevated expression is an elevated copy number of the gene and wherein said gene of Table 1 encodes the same gene product as a polynucleotide of SEQ ID NO: 1-805 and 855 -923.
  • The present invention further relates to a method for identifying a compound as an anti-neoplastic agent, comprising:
  • (a) contacting a test compound with a polypeptide encoded by a gene of Table 1,
  • (b) determining a change in a biological activity of said polypeptide due to said contacting,
  • wherein a change in activity identifies said test compound as an agent having antineoplastic activity.
  • Preferably, said gene of Table encodes the same gene product as a polynucleotide of SEQ ID NO: 1-805 and 855-923.
  • In a preferred embodiment, the change in biological activity is a decrease in biological activity.
  • In another preferred embodiment, the biological activity is an enzyme activity, such as where the enzyme is one selected from the group kinase, protease, peptidase, phosphodiesterase, phosphatase, dehydrogenase, reductase, carboxylase. transferase, deacetylase and polymerase.
  • Assays for these enzymes are available, such as for phosphodiesterases (the most pharmacologically relevant phosphodiesterases are those that hydrolyze cyclic nucleotides (see, for example, cAMP and cGMP assays available from Perkin-Elmer, as well as Estrade et al., Eur. J. Pharmacol. 352:2-3, 157-163 (1998)).
  • Protein phosphatases remove phosphate residues from proteins. Most tests of their activity use the same assays as for protein kinases. A non-radioactive phosphatase assay system is available from Promega Biotech.
  • The therapeutically most relevant dehydrogenases oxidize or reduce small molecular weight metabolites, esp. steroid hormones, or that generally use or generate NAD or NADP (see: Haeseleer et al., J. Biol. Chem., 273:21790-21799 (1998)). A commercial assay is available from Cayman Chemical (at www.caymanchem.com).
  • Gamma-carboxylases are important enzymes in the blood coagulation process. The main assay protocols use synthetic peptides (see: Ulrich et al., J. Biol. Chem., 263:9697-9702 (1988); Begley et al., J. Biol. Chem., 275:36245-36249 (2000)).
  • In highly preferred embodiments, the kinase is one of a protein kinase, a serine or threonine kinase, or a receptor tyrosine protein kinase. Where the polypeptide encoded by a gene of the invention is a protein kinase, especially involving tyrosine kinase, various assays for activity are available. Protein kinases add phosphate groups to serine, threonine or tyrosine residues on proteins, most commonly measured with phospho-serine, threonine, or tyrosine-specific antibodies, or generation of radiolabeled substrate, or consumption of ATP, or phosphorylation of (synthetic) small peptides, or measuring downstream enzyme activity and gene transcription. Such assays are commercially available. (See, for example, the tyrosine kinase assay from Roche Molecular Biochemicals). Assays for serine/threonine kinases are also available at Chromagen.com, Upstate Biotechnology, Inc. (Lake Placid, N.Y., and at upstatebiotech.com) and from Applied BioSystems (Foster City, Calif. (home.appliedbiosystems.com)).
  • In other specific embodiments, the protease is a serine protease, cysteine protease or aspartic acid protease, or the transferase is a methyltransferase, preferably a cytosine methyltransferase or an adenine methyltransferase, or the deacetylase is a histone deacetylase, or the carboxylase is a γ-carboxylase, or the peptidase is a zinc peptidase, or the polymerase is a DNA polymerase or an RNA polymerase.
  • Proteases degrade proteins, un-specifically or at specific sites. Almost all pharmacologically relevant ones have very narrowly defined specific substrates, and their activity is most often measured by directly measuring cleavage product or generation of (fluorescent) light after cleavage of synthetic substrates. Assays are available for serine proteases (Calbiochem, Palo Alto, Calif., and see Berdichevsky et al., J. Virol. Methods, 107:245-255 (2003), for systeine proteases (See: Schulz et al., Mol. Pathol., 51:222-24 (1998) and Seizer et al., PNAS, 96:11015-11022 (1999)), for aspartic acid proteases (Geno Tech, Inc. at www.genotech.com) and for zinc peptidases (see Evans et al., J. Biol. Chem., 278:23180-23186 (2003)).
  • Both (regulatory) DNA-methylases and (biosynthetic) protein methylases that are drug targets. (See: Jonassen and Clarke, J. Biol. Chem., 275:12381-12387 (2000); Jackson et al., Nature, 416:556-560 (2002)).
  • Most HDAC (histone deacetylase) assays use colorimetric or fluorometric (synthetic) substrates. Standard assays are for binding, especially molecular size changes, blocking a specific site, and effects on transcription or downstream reactions (if DNA or RNA is the direct target of a drug). A commercial assay is available from Vinci Biochem (at www.vincibiochem.it).
  • In another specific embodiment, the biological activity is a membrane transport activity, preferably wherein the polypeptide is a cation channel protein, an anion channel protein, a gated-ion channel protein or an ABC transporter protein. Drug effects on the activity of transporter and channel proteins are screened by measuring increase or decrease of the ((radio-)labeled) transported entity inside or outside the cell, in cell-based assays, ATP consumption (in the case of ATPases), or changes in cell membrane potential. Assays employing such proteins are available, such as for ABC transporter (see: Marcil et al., Lancet, 354:1341-46 (1999) and for ion channels (from Evotec OAI, at www.evotecoai.com and from PharmaLinks, at www.pharmalinks.org/research/cellsignalling).
  • In one embodiment, the polypeptide is an integrin (the signal transduction pathways elicited by the integrins are slow and not very well characterized, hence most assays are either just binding assays or measure downstream biological phenomena (such as migration, invasion, etc.) (See: Ganta et al., Endocrinology, 138:3606-3612 (1997); Sim et al., J. Biomed. Mater. Research, 68A:352-359 (2004); and Weinreb et al., Anal. Biochem., 306:305-313 (2002)), or a Cytochrome P450 enzyme (almost all cytochrome assays require knowledge of what the substrate is and measure conversion of substrate (free or (radio-)labeled) or generation of product; useful C14-labeled substrates are available from Amersham Biosciences at wwwl.amershambiosciences.com), or a nuclear hormone receptor (Assays available from Discoverx, Fremont, Calif., such as an estrogen assay; also see Rosen et al., Curr. Opin. Drug. Discov. Devel., 6:224-30 (2003)).
  • In one preferred embodiment, the biological activity is a receptor activity, preferably where the receptor is a G-protein-coupled receptor (GPCR).
  • GPCRs are transmembrane proteins that wind 7 times back and forth through a cell's plasma membrane with a ligand binding site located on the outside of the membrane surface of the cell and the effector site being present inside the cell. These receptors bind GDP and GTP. In response to ligand binding, GPCRs activate signal transduction pathways which induce a number of assayable physiological changes, e.g., an increase in intracellular calcium levels, cyclic-AMP, inositol phosphate turnover, and downstream gene transcription (directly or via reporter-assays) along with other translocation assays available for measuring GPCR activation when the polypeptide encoded by a gene of the invention is a GPCR. Thus, such proteins work through a second messenger. The result is activation of CREB, a transcription factor that stimulates the production of gene products. One useful assay is the so-called BRET2/arrestin assay, useful in screening for compounds that interact with GPCRs. (See: Bertrand et al, J. Recept. Signal Transduct Res., 22:533-41 (February-November 2002)). In addition, numerous assays are commercially available, such as the Transfluor Assay, available from Norak Biosciences, Inc. (www.norakbio.com) or ArrayScan and KineticScan, both from Cellomics, or assays from CyBio (Jena, Germany).
  • Assays useful with the invention are usually set up to screen for agonists or antagonists after adding ligand, but effects on most of these parameters can be measured whether or not the ligand for the receptor is known. Such assays may involve radioligand-binding assays. Activation of the majority of GPCRs by agonists leads to the interaction of beta-arrestin (a protein that is involved in receptor desensitization and sequestration) with the receptor, which is measurable by fluorescence energy transfer
  • The disclosure of all journal articles, or other publications, referred to herein are hereby incorporated by reference in their entirety.
  • In one embodiment, the polypeptide is in a solution or suspension and contact with the test compound is by direct contact between the test compound and the protein molecule. Alternatively, the polypeptide may be in a cell and the test compound may have to diffuse into the cell in order to contact the polypeptide. In an alternative embodiment, the test compound may be contacted with a cell that contains or expresses the polypeptide but the test compound may have no direct contact with the polypeptide. In stead, the test compound may act to induce production and/or activity of a different compound, such as an intracellular second messenger that serves to contact the polypeptide and modulate or change the biological activity of this polypeptide.
  • In accordance with the foregoing, the method of the present invention includes cancer modulating agents that are themselves either polypeptides, or small chemical entities, that affect the cancerous process, including initiation, suppression or facilitation of tumor growth, either in vivo or ex vivo. Such agents may also be antibodies that react with one or more polypeptides encoded by genes as disclosed herein, preferably polypeptides comprising any one of the amino acid sequences of SEQ ID NO: 806-854.
  • Because the genes disclosed herein are over-expressed and relate to the cancerous condition of a cell, successful anti-neoplastic activity will commonly be exhibited by agents that reduce the expression of said genes as identified in Table 1. In one embodiment thereof, the change in expression is a decrease in copy number of the gene or genes under study. In accordance therewith, said change in gene copy number is conveniently determined by detecting a change in expression of messenger RNA encoded by said gene sequence. In another preferred embodiment, expression is determined for more than one such gene, such as 2, 5, 10 or more of the genes.
  • Other methods useful in measuring a change in expression of the genes disclosed herein include measuring a change in the amount or rate of synthesis of a polypeptide encoded by said gene, preferably a decrease in synthesis of said polypeptide. Most preferably, the polypeptide comprises an amino acid sequence highly homologous to a sequence for genes as identified in Table 1 (SEQ ID NO: 1-923).
  • The methods of the invention can thus be utilized to identify anti-neoplastic agents useful in treatment of cancerous conditions. Such activity can be further modified by first identifying such an agent using an assay as already described and further contacting such agent with a cancerous cell, followed by monitoring of the status of said cell, or cells. A change in status indicative of successful anti-neoplastic activity may include a decrease in the rate of replication of the cancerous cell(s), a decrease in the total number of progeny cells that can be produced by said cancerous cell(s), or a decrease in the number of times said cancerous cell(s) can replicate, or the death of said cancerous cell(s).
  • Anti-neoplastic agents may also be identified using recombinant cells suitably engineered to contain and express the cancer-related genes disclosed herein. In one such embodiment, a recombinant cell is formed using standard technology and then utilized in the assays disclosed herein. Methods of forming such recombinant cells are well known in the literature. See, for example, Sambrook, et al., Molecular Cloning: A Laboratory Manual, Second Edition, Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y., (1989), Wu et al, Methods in Gene Biotechnology (CRC Press, New York, N.Y., 1997), and Recombinant Gene Expression Protocols, in Methods in Molecular Biology, Vol. 62, (Tuan, ed., Humana Press, Totowa, N.J., 1997), the disclosures of which are hereby incorporated by reference.
  • The present invention also relates to a method for detecting the cancerous status of a cell, comprising detecting elevated copy number and/or expression in said cell of at least one gene that maps to the chromosomal region of interest as identified in Table 1 (SEQ ID NO: 1-923). Such elevated expression may be readily monitored by comparison to that of otherwise normal cells having the same genes. Elevated expression of these genes is indicative of the cancerous state. This includes a gene corresponding to a polynucleotide that comprises a nucleotide sequence as identified in Table 1 (SEQ ID NO: 1-923). Such elevated expression, including increased copy number, may be the expression of more than one such gene.
  • The present invention also relates to a method for detecting a cancer-linked gene comprising the steps of contacting a compound identified as having gene modulating activity for a gene corresponding to a polynucleotide that comprises a nucleotide sequence as identified in Table 1 (SEQ ID NO: 1-923) with a cell expressing a test gene and detecting modulation, such as decreased activity, of such test gene relative to when said compound is not present thereby identifying said test gene as a cancer-related gene. In preferred embodiments, the gene determined by said method is an oncogene, or cancer facilitating gene.
  • In another embodiment, there is provided a method for treating cancer comprising contacting a cancerous cell with an agent first identified as having gene modulating activity using any of the assay methods disclosed according to the invention and in an amount effective to reduce the cancerous activity of said cell. In a preferred embodiment, the cancerous cell is contacted in vivo. In other preferred embodiments, said reduction in cancerous activity is a decrease in the rate of proliferation of said cancerous cell, or said reduction in cancerous activity is the death of said cancerous cell.
  • The present invention further relates to a method for treating cancer comprising contacting a cancerous cell with an agent having activity against an expression product encoded by a gene corresponding to a polynucleotide comprising a nucleotide sequence as identified in Table 1 (SEQ ID NO: 1-923) where the product is a polypeptide, most preferably one comprising an amino acid sequence as identified in Table 1 (SEQ ID NO: 806-854). In a preferred embodiment, said cancerous cell is contacted in vivo. In another preferred embodiment, the agent is an antibody.
  • As noted, the genes useful in the assay methods include genes mapping within chromosomal regions of interest and genes as identified in Table 1 (SEQ ID NO: 1-923), or a gene that encodes the same RNA, such as the same messenger RNA, whose corresponding cDNA is one of the sequences as identified in Table 1 (SEQ ID NO: 1-923). The genes useful in the methods of the invention further include genes encoding RNAs whose corresponding cDNA is at least 90% identical to a sequence as identified in Table 1 (SEQ ID NO: 1-923), preferably at least about 95% identical to such a sequence, more preferably at least about 98% identical to such sequence and most preferably one comprising that sequence are specifically contemplated by all of the methods of the present invention.
  • In addition, sequences encoding the same proteins (SEQ ID NO: 806-854) as any of these sequences, regardless of the percent identity of such sequences, are also specifically contemplated by the invention.
  • The sequences disclosed herein may be genomic in nature and thus represent the sequence of an actual gene, such as a human gene, or may be a cDNA sequence derived from a messenger RNA (mRNA) and thus represent contiguous exonic sequences derived from a corresponding genomic sequence or they may be wholly synthetic in origin for purposes of testing. As described in the Example, the expression of these cancer-related genes is determined from the relative expression levels of the RNA complement of a cancerous cell relative to a normal (i.e., non-cancerous) cell. Because of the processing that may take place in transforming the initial RNA transcript into the final mRNA, the sequences disclosed herein may represent less than the full genomic sequence. They may also represent sequences derived from ribosomal and transfer RNAs. Consequently, the genes present in the cell (and representing the genomic sequences) and the sequences disclosed herein, which are mostly cDNA sequences, may be identical or may be such that the cDNAs contain less than the full genomic sequence. Such genes and cDNA sequences are still considered corresponding sequences because they both encode similar RNA sequences. Thus, by way of non-limiting example only, a gene that encodes an RNA transcript, which is then processed into a shorter mRNA, is deemed to encode both such RNAs and therefore encodes an RNA complementary to (using the usual Watson-Crick complementarity rules), or that would otherwise be encoded by, a cDNA (for example, a sequence as disclosed herein). Thus, the sequences disclosed herein correspond to genes contained in the cancerous or normal cells used to determine relative levels of expression because they represent the same sequences or are complementary to RNAs encoded by these genes. Such genes also include different alleles and splice variants that may occur in the cells used in the methods of the invention.
  • The genes of the invention “correspond to” a polynucleotide having a sequence as identified in Table 1 (SEQ ID NO: 1-923) if the gene encodes an RNA (processed or unprocessed, including naturally occurring splice variants and alleles) that is at least 90% identical, preferably at least 95% identical, most preferably at least 98% identical to, and especially identical to, an RNA that would be encoded by, or be complementary to, such as by hybridization with, a polynucleotide having the indicated sequence. In addition, genes including sequences at least 90% identical to a sequence as identified in Table 1 (SEQ ID NO: 1-923), preferably at least about 95% identical to such a sequence, more preferably at least about 98% identical to such sequence and most preferably comprising such sequence are specifically contemplated by all of the methods of the present invention as being genes that correspond to these sequences. In addition, sequences encoding the same proteins as any of these sequences, regardless of the percent identity of such sequences, are also specifically contemplated by any of the methods of the present invention that rely on any or all of said sequences, regardless of how they are otherwise described or limited. Thus, any such sequences are available for use in carrying out any of the methods disclosed according to the invention. Such sequences also include any open reading frames, as defined herein, present within any of the sequences as identified in Table 1 (SEQ ID NO: 1-805 and 855-923).
  • Further in accordance with the present invention, the term “percent identity” or “percent identical,” when referring to a sequence, means that a sequence is compared to a claimed or described sequence after alignment of the sequence to be compared (the “Compared Sequence”) with the described or claimed sequence (the “Reference Sequence”). The Percent Identity is then determined according to the following formula:
    Percent Identity=100[1−(C/R)]
    wherein C is the number of differences between the Reference Sequence and the Compared Sequence over the length of alignment between the Reference Sequence and the Compared Sequence wherein (i) each base or amino acid in the Reference Sequence that does not have a corresponding aligned base or amino acid in the Compared Sequence and (ii) each gap in the Reference Sequence and (iii) each aligned base or amino acid in the Reference Sequence that is different from an aligned base or amino acid in the Compared Sequence, constitutes a difference; and R is the number of bases or amino acids in the Reference Sequence over the length of the alignment with the Compared Sequence with any gap created in the Reference Sequence also being counted as a base or amino acid.
  • If an alignment exists between the Compared Sequence and the Reference Sequence for which the percent identity as calculated above is about equal to or greater than a specified minimum Percent Identity then the Compared Sequence has the specified minimum percent identity to the Reference Sequence even though alignments may exist in which the hereinabove calculated Percent Identity is less than the specified Percent Identity.
  • As used herein, the terms “portion,” “segment,” and “fragment,” when used in relation to polypeptides, refer to a continuous sequence of residues, such as amino acid residues, which sequence forms a subset of a larger sequence. For example, if a polypeptide were subjected to treatment with any of the common endopeptidases, such as trypsin or chymotrypsin, the oligopeptides resulting from such treatment would represent portions, segments or fragments of the starting polypeptide. When used in relation to a polynucleotide, such terms refer to the products produced by treatment of said polynucleotides with any of the common endonucleases, or any stretch of polynucleotides that could be synthetically synthesized.
  • As used herein, the term “DNA segment” or “DNA sequence” refers to a DNA polymer, in the form of a separate fragment or as a component of a larger DNA construct, which has been derived from DNA, and may include both single stranded and duplex sequences. Such segments are provided in the form of an open reading frame uninterrupted by internal non-translated sequences, or introns, which are typically present in eukaryotic genes.
  • The term “coding region” refers to that portion of a gene which either naturally or normally codes for the expression product of that gene in its natural genomic environment, i.e., the region coding in vivo for the native expression product of the gene.
  • The term “nucleotide sequence” refers to a heteropolymer of deoxyribonucleotides. Generally, DNA segments encoding the proteins provided by this invention are assembled from cDNA fragments and short oligonucleotide linkers, or from a series of oligonucleotides, to provide a synthetic gene which is capable of being expressed in a recombinant transcriptional unit comprising regulatory elements derived from a microbial or viral operon.
  • The term “expression product” means that polypeptide or protein that is the natural translation product of the gene and any nucleic acid sequence coding equivalents resulting from genetic code degeneracy and thus coding for the same amino acid(s).
  • The term “fragment,” when referring to a coding sequence, means a portion of DNA comprising less than the complete coding region whose expression product retains essentially the same biological function or activity as the expression product of the complete coding region.
  • The present invention also finds use as a means of diagnosing the presence of cancer in a patient, as where a sample of cancerous tissues or cells, or tissues or cells suspected of being cancerous. For such purposes, and in accordance with the disclosure elsewhere herein, such diagnosis is based on the detection of elevated expression or amplification, such as elevated copy number, of one or more of the genes identified according to the invention. Such elevated expression can be determined by any of the means described herein.
  • In one such embodiment, the elevated expression, as compared to normal cells and/or tissues of the same organ, is determined by measuring the relative rates of transcription of RNA, such as by production of corresponding cDNAs and then analyzing the resulting DNA using probes developed from the gene sequences as identified in Table 1. Thus, the levels of cDNA produced by use of reverse transcriptase with the full RNA complement of a cell suspected of being cancerous produces a corresponding amount of cDNA that can then be amplified using polymerase chain reaction, or some other means, such as rolling circle amplification, to determine the relative levels of resulting cDNA and, thereby, the relative levels of gene expression.
  • For RNA analysis, the latter may be isolated from samples in a variety of ways, including lysis and denaturation with a phenolic solution containing a chaotropic agent (e.g., triazol) followed by isopropanol precipitation, ethanol wash, and resuspension in aqueous solution; or lysis and denaturation followed by isolation on solid support, such as a Qiagen resin and reconstitution in aqueous solution; or lysis and denaturation in non-phenolic, aqueous solutions followed by enzymatic conversion of RNA to DNA template copies. Steady state RNA levels for a given type of cell or tissue may have to be ascertained prior to employment of the methods of the invention but such is well within the skill of those in the art and will not be further described in detail herein.
  • Alternatively, increased expression, such as increased copy number, may be determined for the genes present in a cancerous cell, or a cell suspected of being cancerous, by using the nucleotides sequences as identified in Table 1 as a means of generating probes for the DNAs present in the cells to be examined. Thus, the DNA of such cells may be extracted and probed using the sequences disclosed herein for the presence in the genomes of such cells of increased amounts of one or more of the genes of the invention. For example, where a cancer-related, or cancer-linked, gene as disclosed herein is found to be present in multiple copies within the genome of a cell, even where it may not be actively being over-expressed at the time of such determination, this may be indicative of at least a disposition toward developing cancer at a subsequent time.
  • In accordance with the foregoing, the presence of such multiple copies of a gene, or genes, as disclosed herein may be determined using northern or southern blotting and employing the sequences as identified in Table 1 to develop probes for this purpose. Such probes may be composed of DNA or RNA and may advantageously be comprised of a contiguous stretch of nucleotide residues matching, or complementary to, a sequence as identified in Table 1. Such probes will most usefully comprise a contiguous stretch of at least 15, preferably at least 30, more preferably at least 50, most preferably at least 80, and especially at least 100, even 200 residues, derived from one or more of the sequences as identified in Table 1. Thus, where a single probe binds multiple times to the genome of a sample of cells that are cancerous, or are suspected of being cancerous, or predisposed to become cancerous, whereas binding of the same probe to a similar amount of DNA derived from the genome of otherwise non-cancerous cells of the same organ or tissue results in observably less binding, this is indicative of the presence of multiple copies of a gene comprising, or corresponding to, the sequence as identified in Table 1 from which the probe sequenced was derived.
  • Increased expression may also be determined using agents that selectively bind to, and thereby detect, the presence of expression products of the genes disclosed herein. For example, an antibody, possibly a suitably labeled antibody, such as where the antibody is bound to a fluorescent or radiolabel, may be generated against one of the polypeptides comprising a sequence as identified in Table 1 (serial number 1-229 (breast), 230-440 (colon), 441-656 (lung) and 657-805 (prostate); for polypeptide SEQ ID NOs, see Table 1, serial number 806-923 (transcript or protein)), and said antibody will then react with, binding either selectively or specifically, to a polypeptide encoded by one of the genes that corresponds to a sequence disclosed herein. Such antibody binding, especially relative extent of such binding in samples derived from suspected cancerous, as opposed to otherwise non-cancerous, cells and tissues, can then be used as a measure of the extent of expression, or over-expression, of the cancer-related genes identified herein. Thus, the genes identified herein as being over-expressed in cancerous cells and tissues may be over-expressed due to increased copy number, or due to over-transcription, such as where the over-expression is due to over-production of a transcription factor that activates the gene and leads to repeated binding of RNA polymerase, thereby generating large than normal amounts of RNA transcripts, which are subsequently translated into polypeptides, such as the polypeptides comprising amino acid sequences as identified in table 1)SEQ ID NO: 1-923). Such analysis provides an additional means of ascertaining the expression of the genes identified according to the invention and thereby determining the presence of a cancerous state in a sample derived from a patient to be tested, of the predisposition to develop cancer at a subsequent time in said patient.
  • In employing the methods of the invention, it should be borne in mind that gene expression indicative of a cancerous state need not be characteristic of every cell found to be cancerous. Thus, the methods disclosed herein are useful for detecting the presence of a cancerous condition within a tissue where less than all cells exhibit the complete pattern of over-expression. For example, a set of selected genes, comprising sequences homologous under stringent conditions, or at least 90%, preferably 95%, identical to at least one of the sequences as identified in Table 1, may be found, using appropriate probes, either DNA or RNA, to be present in as little as 60% of cells derived from a sample of tumorous, or malignant, tissue while being absent from as much as 60% of cells derived from corresponding non-cancerous, or otherwise normal, tissue (and thus being present in as much as 40% of such normal tissue cells). In a preferred embodiment, such gene pattern is found to be present in at least 70% of cells drawn from a cancerous tissue and absent from at least 70% of a corresponding normal, non-cancerous, tissue sample. In an especially preferred embodiment, such gene pattern is found to be present in at least 80% of cells drawn from a cancerous tissue and absent from at least 80% of a corresponding normal, non-cancerous, tissue sample. In a most preferred embodiment, such gene pattern is found to be present in at least 90% of cells drawn from a cancerous tissue and absent from at least 90% of a corresponding normal, non-cancerous, tissue sample. In an additional embodiment, such gene pattern is found to be present in at least 100% of cells drawn from a cancerous tissue and absent from at least 100% of a corresponding normal, non-cancerous, tissue sample, although the latter embodiment may represent a rare occurrence.
  • In an additional aspect, the present invention relates to a method for determining a cancer initiating or facilitating gene comprising contacting a cell expressing a test gene (i.e., a gene whose status as a cancer initiating or facilitating gene is to be determined) with an agent that decreases the expression of a gene that encodes an RNA at least 90%, preferably 95%, identical to an RNA encoded by (i.e., a gene corresponding to) a polynucleotide comprising, or having, a sequence selected from the group consisting as identified in Table 1 and detecting a decrease in expression of said test gene compared to when said agent is not present, thereby identifying said test gene as being a cancer initiating or facilitating gene. Such genes may, of course, be oncogenes and said decrease in expression may be due to a decrease in copy number of said gene in said cell or a cell derived from said cell, such as where copy number is reduced in the cells formed by replication of such cells.
  • Thus, some or all of the genes disclosed herein as corresponding to as identified in Table 1 are found to play a direct role in the initiation or progression of cancer or even other diseases and disease processes. Because changes in expression of these genes (up-regulation) are linked to the disease state (i.e. cancer), the change in expression may contribute to the initiation or progression of the disease. For example, if a gene that is up-regulated is an oncogene such a gene provides for a means of screening for small molecule therapeutics beyond screens based upon expression output alone. For example, genes that display up-regulation in cancer and whose elevated expression contributes to initiation or progression of disease represent targets in screens for small molecules that inhibit or block their function. Examples include, but are not be limited to, kinase inhibition, cellular proliferation, substrate analogs that block the active site of protein targets, etc.
  • It should be noted that there are a variety of different contexts in which genes have been evaluated as being involved in the cancerous process. Thus, some genes may be oncogenes and encode proteins that are directly involved in the cancerous process and thereby promote the occurrence of cancer in an animal. Other genes may simply be involved either directly or indirectly in the cancerous process or condition and may serve in an ancillary capacity with respect to the cancerous state. All such types of genes are deemed with those to be determined in accordance with the invention as disclosed herein. Thus, the gene determined by said method of the invention may be an oncogene, or the gene determined by said method may be a cancer facilitating gene, the latter including a gene that directly or indirectly affects the cancerous process, either in the promotion of a cancerous condition or in facilitating the progress of cancerous growth or otherwise modulating the growth of cancer cells, either in vivo or ex vivo. Such genes may work indirectly where their expression alters the activity of some other gene or gene expression product that is itself directly involved in initiating or facilitating the progress of a cancerous condition. For example, a gene that encodes a polypeptide, either wild or mutant in type, which polypeptide acts to suppress of tumor suppressor gene, or its expression product, will thereby act indirectly to promote tumor growth.
  • In accordance with the foregoing, the method of the present invention includes cancer modulating agents that are themselves either polypeptides, or small chemical entities, that affect the cancerous process, including initiation, suppression or facilitation of tumor growth, either in vivo or ex vivo. Such agents may also be antibodies that react with one or more of the polypeptides as identified in Table 1 ((SEQ ID NO: 806-923 (transcript or protein)).
  • In keeping with the disclosure herein, the present invention also relates to a method for treating cancer comprising contacting a cancerous cell with an agent having activity against an expression product encoded by a gene mapping within regions of chromosomal interest or, alternatively, a gene corresponding to a polynucleotide that comprises a nucleotide sequence as identified in Table 1, such as where such expression product is one the polypeptides as identified in Table 1.
  • The method of the present invention includes embodiments of the above-recited method wherein said cancer cell is contacted in vivo as well as ex vivo, preferably wherein said agent comprises a portion, or is part of an overall molecular structure, having affinity for said expression product. In one such embodiment, said portion having affinity for said expression product is an antibody.
  • In one embodiment of the present invention, a chemical agent, such as a protein or other polypeptide, is joined to an agent, such as an antibody, having affinity for an expression product of a cancerous cell, such as a polypeptide or protein encoded by a gene related to the cancerous process, especially a gene sequence corresponding to one of the cDNA sequences as identified in Table 1. In a specific embodiment, said expression product acts as a therapeutic target for the affinity portion of said anticancer agent and where, after binding of the affinity portion of such agent to the expression product, the anti-cancer portion of said agent acts against said expression product so as to neutralize its effects in initiating, facilitating or promoting tumor formation and/or growth. In a separate embodiment of the present invention, binding of the agent to said expression product may, without more, have the effect of deterring cancer promotion, facilitation or growth, especially where the presence of said expression product is related, either intimately or only in an ancillary manner, to the development and growth of a tumor. Thus, where the presence of said expression product is essential to tumor initiation and/or growth, binding of said agent to said expression product will have the effect of negating said tumor promoting activity. In one such embodiment, said agent is an apoptosis-inducing agent that induces cell suicide, thereby killing the cancer cell and halting tumor growth.
  • Many cancers contain chromosomal rearrangements, which typically represent translocations, amplifications, or deletions of specific regions of genomic DNA. A recurrent chromosomal rearrangement that is associated with a specific stage and type of cancer always affects a gene (or possibly genes) that play a direct and critical role in the initiation or progression of the disease. Many of the known oncogenes or tumor suppressor genes that play direct roles in cancer have either been initially identified based upon their positional cloning from a recurrent chromosomal rearrangement or have been demonstrated to fall within a rearrangement subsequent to their cloning by other methods. In all cases, such genes display amplification at both the level of DNA copy number and at the level of transcriptional expression at the mRNA level.
  • The present method also relates to a method for determining functionally related genes comprising contacting one or more gene sequences corresponding to the cDNAs as identified in Table 1 with an agent that modulates expression of more than one gene in such group and thereby determining a subset of genes of said group.
  • In accordance with the present invention, said functionally related genes are genes modulating the same metabolic pathway or said genes are genes encoding functionally related polypeptides. In one such embodiment, said genes are genes whose expression is modulated by the same transcriptional activator or enhancer sequence, especially where said transcriptional activator or enhancer increases, or otherwise modulates, the activity of a gene corresponding to a cDNA as identified in Table 1.
  • The present invention also relates to a process that comprises a method for producing a product comprising identifying an agent according to one of the disclosed methods for identifying such an agent (i.e., the therapeutic agents identified according to the assay procedures disclosed herein) wherein said product is the data collected with respect to said agent as a result of said identification process, or assay, and wherein said data is sufficient to convey the chemical character and/or structure and/or properties of said agent. For example, the present invention specifically contemplates a situation whereby a user of an assay of the invention may use the assay to screen for compounds having the desired enzyme modulating activity and, having identified the compound, then conveys that information (i.e., information as to structure, dosage, etc) to another user who then utilizes the information to reproduce the agent and administer it for therapeutic or research purposes according to the invention. For example, the user of the assay (user 1) may screen a number of test compounds without knowing the structure or identity of the compounds (such as where a number of code numbers are used the first user is simply given samples labeled with said code numbers) and, after performing the screening process, using one or more assay processes of the present invention, then imparts to a second user (user 2), verbally or in writing or some equivalent fashion, sufficient. information to identify the compounds having a particular modulating activity (for example, the code number with the corresponding results). This transmission of information from user 1 to user 2 is specifically contemplated by the present invention.
  • In accordance with the foregoing, the present invention relates to a method for producing test data with respect to the anti-neoplastic activity of a compound comprising:
  • (a) contacting a compound with a cell that expresses at least one gene corresponding to a polynucleotide comprising a nucleotide sequence of serial number 1-229 (breast), 230-440 (colon), 441-656 (lung) and 657-805 (prostate) of Table 1 or encoding a polypeptide or transcript of SEQ ID NO:
  • 806-923 and under conditions promoting expression of said gene;
  • (b) detecting a change in expression of said gene compared to expression when said compound is not present; and
  • (c) producing test data with respect to the gene modulating activity of said compound based on a change in the expression of the determined gene, or genes, whose expression is otherwise elevated in a non-cancerous cell over that in a cancerous cell and a decrease in the expression of the determined gene, or genes whose expression is otherwise increased in a cancerous cell over that in a non-cancerous cell indicating anti-neoplastic activity.
  • In another embodiment, the present invention provides a method for monitoring the progress of a cancer treatment, such as where the methods of the invention permit a determination that a given course of cancer therapy is or is not proving effective because of an increased or decreased expression of a gene, or genes, disclosed herein. For example, where there is an increased copy number of one or more of the genes as identified in Table 1 (SEQ ID NO: 1-805), monitoring of such genes can predict success or failure of a course of therapy, such as chemotherapy, or predict the likelihood of a relapse based on elevated activity or expression of one or more of these genes following such course of therapy.
  • In accordance with the foregoing, the present invention contemplates a method for determining the progress of a treatment for cancer in a patient afflicted with cancer, following commencement of a cancer treatment on said patient, comprising:
  • (a) determining in said patient a change in expression of one or more genes corresponding to a polynucleotide comprising a nucleotide sequence of serial number 1-229 (breast), 230-440 (colon), 441-656 (lung) and 657-805 (prostate) of Table 1 or encoding a polypeptide or transcript of serial number 806-923 of table 1) which include any of SEQ ID NO: 1-923) and under conditions promoting expression of said one or more genes; and
  • (b) detecting a change in expression of said gene compared to expression of said one or more determined genes prior to commencement of said cancer treatment;
  • thereby determining the progress of said treatment.
  • In a preferred embodiment, the detected change in expression is a decrease in expression. In another preferred embodiment, the cancer treatment is treatment with a chemotherapeutic agent, especially an agent that modulates, preferably decreases, expression of a gene identified herein, such as where said agent was first identified as having anti-neoplastic activity using a method of the invention. Thus, in accordance with this aspect of the present invention, a patient, or even a research animal, such as a mouse, rat, rabbit or primate, afflicted with cancer, including a cancer induced for research purposes, is introduced to a cancer treatment regimen, such as administration of an anti-cancer agent, including one first identified as having anti-neoplastic activity by one or more of the screening methods disclosed herein. The progress and success or failure of such treatment is subsequently ascertained by determining the subsequent expression of one or more, preferably at least 3, or 5, or 10, of the genes identified herein, or that encodes a transcript or polypeptide disclosed herein (see Table 1) following said treatment. In a preferred embodiment, a treatment that reduces said expression is deemed advantageous and may then be the basis for continuing said treatment. The methods of the invention thereby provide a means of continually monitoring the success of the treatment and evaluating both the need, and desirability, of continuing said treatment. In addition, more than one said treatment may be administered simultaneously without diminishing the value of the methods of the invention in determining the overall success of such combined treatment. Thus, more than one said anti-neoplastic agent may be administered to the same patient and overall effectiveness ascertained by the recited methods.
  • In accordance with the foregoing, the present invention also contemplates a method for determining the likelihood of survival of a patient afflicted with cancer, following commencement of a cancer treatment on said patient, comprising:
  • (a) determining in said patient a change in expression of one or more genes corresponding to a polynucleotide comprising a nucleotide sequence of serial number 1-229 (breast), 230-440 (colon), 441-656 (lung) and 657-805 (prostate) of Table 1 or encoding a polypeptide or transcript of serial number 806-923 of Table 1 and under conditions promoting expression of said one or more genes; and
  • (b) detecting a change in expression of said gene compared to expression of said one or more determined genes prior to commencement of said cancer treatment;
  • thereby determining the likelihood of survival of said treatment.
  • In a preferred embodiment, the detected change in expression is a decrease in expression and said determined gene, or genes, may include 2, 3, 5, 10 or more of the genes described herein. Thus, the methods of the invention may be utilized as a means for compiling cancer survival statistics following one or more, possibly combined, treatments for cancer as in keeping with the other methods disclosed herein.
  • The genes identified herein also offer themselves as pharmacodynamic markers (or as pharmacogenetic and/or surrogate markers), such as for patient profiling prior to clinical trials and/or targeted therapies, including combination treatments, resulting from the identification of these genes as valid gene targets for chemotherapy based on the screening procedures of the invention. In one embodiment thereof, the likelihood of success of a cancer treatment with a selected chemotherapeutic agent may be based on the fact that such agent has been determined to have expression modulating activity with one or more genes identified herein, especially where said genes have been identified as showing elevated expression levels in samples from a prospective patient afflicted with cancer. Methods described elsewhere herein for determining cancerous status of a cell may find ready use in such evaluations.
  • It should be cautioned that, in carrying out the procedures of the present invention as disclosed herein, any reference to particular buffers, media, reagents, cells, culture conditions and the like are not intended to be limiting, but are to be read so as to include all related materials that one of ordinary skill in the art would recognize as being of interest or value in the particular context in which that discussion is presented. For example, it is often possible to substitute one buffer system or culture medium for another and still achieve similar, if not identical, results. Those of skill in the art will have sufficient knowledge of such systems and methodologies so as to be able, without undue experimentation, to make such substitutions as will optimally serve their purposes in using the methods and procedures disclosed herein.
  • The present invention will now be further described by way of the following non-limiting example. In applying the disclosure of the example, it should be kept clearly in mind that other and different embodiments of the methods disclosed according to the present invention will no doubt suggest themselves to those of skill in the relevant art.
  • EXAMPLE
  • Cancerous cells that over-express one or more of the genes selected from those that correspond to genes as identified in Table 1 (serial number 1-229 (breast), 230-440 (colon), 441-656 (lung) and 657-805 (prostate); serial number 806-923 (transcript or protein), or SEQ ID NO: 1-805 and 855-923) are grown to a density of 105 cells/cm2 in Leibovitz's L-15 medium supplemented with 2 mM L-glutamine (90%) and 10% fetal bovine serum. The cells are collected after treatment with 0.25% trypsin, 0.02% EDTA at 37° C. for 2 to 5 minutes. The trypsinized cells are then diluted with 30 ml growth medium and plated at a density of 50,000 cells per well in a 96 well plate (200 μl/well). The following day, cells are treated with either compound buffer alone, or compound buffer containing a chemical agent to be tested, for 24 hours. The media is then removed, the cells lysed and the RNA recovered using the RNAeasy reagents and protocol obtained from Qiagen. RNA is quantitated and 10 ng of sample in 1 μl are added to 24 μl of Taqman reaction mix containing 1X PCR buffer, RNAsin, reverse transcriptase, nucleoside triphosphates, amplitaq gold, tween 20, glycerol, bovine serum albumin (BSA) and specific PCR primers and probes for a reference gene (18S RNA) and a test gene (Gene X). Reverse transcription is then carried out at 48° C. for 30 minutes. The sample is then applied to a Perlin Elmer 7700 sequence detector and heat denatured for 10 minutes at 95° C. Amplification is performed through 40 cycles using 15 seconds annealing at 60° C. followed by a 60 second extension at 72° C. and 30 second denaturation at 95° C. Data files are then captured and the data analyzed with the appropriate baseline windows and thresholds.
  • The quantitative difference between the target and reference genes is then calculated and a relative expression value determined for all of the samples used. This procedure is then repeated for each of the target genes in a given signature, or characteristic, set and the relative expression ratios for each pair of genes is determined (i.e., a ratio of expression is determined for each target gene versus each of the other genes for which expression is measured, where each gene's absolute expression is determined relative to the reference gene for each compound, or chemical agent, to be screened). The samples are then scored and ranked according to the degree of alteration of the expression profile in the treated samples relative to the control. The overall expression of the set of genes relative to the controls, as modulated by one chemical agent relative to another, is also ascertained. Chemical agents having the most effect on a given gene, or set of genes, are considered the most anti-neoplastic.
    TABLE 1
    Serial Protein/
    No. SEQ ID accession tissue p_m chr band unigene Description Transcript
    1 3 AK000490 breast primary 1 p31.2 Hs.133260 hypothetical protein FLJ20354
    2 10 R33352 breast primary 1 p31.3 NULL unknown
    3 13 AI739473 breast primary 1 p32.3 Hs.75616 24-dehydrocholesterol reductase
    4 5 U63743 breast primary 1 p34.1 Hs.69360 kinesin-like 6 (mitotic centromere-associated
    kinesin)
    5 2 U05340 breast primary 1 p34.2 Hs.82906 CDC20 cell division cycle 20 homolog (S. cerevisiae)
    6 11 AA203213 breast primary 1 p36.33 Hs.833 interferon-stimulated protein 15 kDa
    7 12 T16144 breast primary 1 q21.3 NULL unknown
    8 1 AI053741 breast primary 1 q22 Hs.133294 ESTs
    9 14 AB037776 breast primary 1 q23.1 Hs.38002 immunoglobulin superfamily member 9
    10 9 AA830844 breast primary 1 q23.2 Hs.127310 kinase interacting with leukemia-associated
    gene (stathmin)
    11 7 AF326731 breast primary 1 q23.3 Hs.234545 cell division cycle associated 1
    12 4 AB032931 breast primary 1 q32.1 Hs.5199 HSPC150 protein similar to ubiquitin-
    conjugating enzyme
    13 8 AI380204 breast primary 1 q32.1 Hs.118064 similar to rat nuclear ubiquitous casein kinase 2
    14 6 U30872 breast primary 1 q32.3 Hs.77204 centromere protein F 350/400 ka (mitosin)
    15 55 U14518 breast primary 2 p23.3 Hs.1594 centromere protein A 17 kDa
    16 54 AI492879 breast primary 2 p25.1 Hs.75319 ribonucleotide reductase M2 polypeptide
    17 56 AL045632 breast primary 2 q33.1 Hs.44269 hypothetical protein FLJ25211
    18 74 M86699 breast primary 3 p21.31 Hs.169840 TTK protein kinase
    19 77 AI962335 breast primary 3 p24.3 Hs.196042 ESTs
    20 75 AI867102 breast primary 3 p25.1 Hs.56966 KIAA0906 protein
    21 71 AI751438 breast primary 3 q12.3 Hs.41271 Homo sapiens mRNA full length insert cDNA
    clone EUROIMAGE 1913076
    22 72 X57527 breast primary 3 q12.3 Hs.114599 collagen type VIII alpha 1
    23 76 W02608 breast primary 3 q26.1 Hs.36830 ESTs Moderately similar to zinc finger protein
    91 (HPF7 HTF10) [Homo sapiens] [H. sapiens]
    24 73 AI823992 breast primary 3 q26.32 Hs.122579 epithelial cell transforming sequence 2
    oncogene
    25 78 AI087975 breast primary 3 q28 Hs.195225 ESTs
    26 82 AW001872 breast primary 5 p13.1 Hs.58435 FYN binding protein (FYB-120/130)
    27 80 BE407516 breast primary 5 q13.2 Hs.23960 cyclin B1
    28 81 U70370 breast primary 5 q31.1 Hs.84136 paired-like homeodomain transcription factor 1
    29 79 AI739117 breast primary 5 q31.2 Hs.73625 RAB6 interacting kinesin-like (rabkinesin6)
    30 83 D14678 breast primary 6 p21.32 Hs.20830 kinesin-like 2
    31 85 M13436 breast primary 7 p14.1 Hs.727 inhibin beta A (activin A activin AB alpha
    polypeptide)
    32 86 AI343467 breast primary 7 p14.1 Hs.28792 Homo sapiens cDNA FLJ11041 fis clone
    PLACE1004405
    33 84 AK023208 breast primary 7 p14.2 Hs.62180 anillin actin binding protein (scraps homolog
    Drosophila)
    34 89 AI285531 breast primary 7 p15.2 Hs.106260 sorting nexin 10
    35 87 AI922323 breast primary 7 p21.1 Hs.91011 anterior gradient 2 homolog (Xenepus laevis)
    36 88 U61145 breast primary 7 q36.1 Hs.77256 enhancer of zeste homolog 2 (Drosophila)
    37 99 AA625199 breast primary 8 NULL Hs.352415 solute carrier family 39 (zinc transporter)
    member 4
    38 100 AI949095 breast primary 8 NULL Hs.67776 Homo sapiens clone IMAGE: 5455669 mRNA
    partial cds
    39 90 AI932328 breast primary 8 p21.1 Hs.104741 T-LAK cell-originated protein kinase
    40 91 AA203476 breast primary 8 q13.2 Hs.252587 pituitary tumor-transforming 1
    41 92 AW043713 breast primary 8 q13.3 Hs.70823 sulfatase FP
    42 96 BE974098 breast primary 8 q21.13 Hs.2384 tumor protein D52
    43 98 AF091433 breast primary 8 q22.1 Hs.30464 cyclin E2
    44 95 AA046853 breast primary 8 q24.12 Hs.76550 mal T-cell differentiation protein 2
    45 93 AI925583 breast primary 8 q24.13 Hs.222088 hypothetical protein MGC5254
    46 97 AF098865 breast primary 8 q24.13 Hs.71465 squalene epoxidase
    47 94 AA147884 breast primary 8 q24.22 Hs.9812 Homo sapiens cDNA FLJ14388 fis clone
    HEMBA1002716
    48 103 AW007586 breast primary 9 q34.11 Hs.133122 zinc finger DHHC domain containing 12
    49 101 W25552 breast primary 9 q34.3 Hs.212613 hypothetical protein FLJ36779
    50 102 AI811865 breast primary 9 q34.3 Hs.274152 EST
    51 17 AF067656 breast primary 10 q21.1 Hs.42650 ZW10 interactor
    52 16 AL524035 breast primary 10 q21.2 Hs.334562 cell division cycle 2 G1 to S and G2 to M
    53 15 AI674163 breast primary 10 q23.33 Hs.14559 hypothetical protein FLJ10540
    54 21 AB018293 breast primary 11 p15.3 Hs.314434 KIAA0750 gene product
    55 18 AL079372 breast primary 11 q13.1 Hs.23044 similar to RIKEN cDNA 2610036L13
    56 22 D60944 breast primary 11 q13.4 Hs.84700 serologically defined colon cancer antigen 28
    57 19 X14850 breast primary 11 q23.3 Hs.147097 H2A histone family member X
    58 20 AA704137 breast primary 11 q23.3 Hs.125359 Thy-1 cell surface antigen
    59 23 U74612 breast primary 12 p13.33 Hs.239 forkhead box M1
    60 24 U82984 breast primary 12 q13.12 Hs.23900 Rac GTPase activating protein 1
    61 25 AI291142 breast primary 13 q33.3 Hs.183874 cullin 4A
    62 26 L25876 breast primary 14 q22.1 Hs.84113 cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor 3 (CDK2-
    associated dual specificity phosphatase)
    63 27 AL080146 breast primary 15 q21.3 Hs.194698 cyclin B2
    64 28 D14657 breast primary 15 q22.2 Hs.81892 KIAA0101 gene product
    65 29 AA195614 breast primary 15 q25.3 Hs.344037 protein regulator of cytokinesis 1
    66 31 AW003626 breast primary 16 NULL Hs.159154 tubulin beta 4
    67 32 BC003186 breast primary 16 NULL Hs.108196 HSPC037 protein
    68 30 AI819340 breast primary 16 p13.3 Hs.13561 hypothetical protein MGC4692
    69 34 W92110 breast primary 16 p13.3 Hs.279623 selenoprotein × 1
    70 35 AI953838 breast primary 16 p13.3 Hs.124015 hypothetical protein MGC2605
    71 36 AL520675 breast primary 16 p13.3 Hs.351474 hypothetical protein FLJ30002
    72 37 BE965311 breast primary 16 p13.3 Hs.124915 hypothetical protein MGC2601
    73 38 AI701742 breast primary 16 p13.3 Hs.290943 Homo sapiens similar to possible G-protein
    receptor clone MGC: 21993 IMAGE: 4398317
    mRNA complete cds
    74 33 AA904482 breast primary 16 q12.2 Hs.368078 ESTs
    75 42 AI683036 breast primary 17 NULL Hs.314169 KIAA1618 protein
    76 44 U81800 breast primary 17 NULL Hs.85838 solute carrier family 16 (monocarboxylic acid
    transporters) member 3
    77 45 BE328850 breast primary 17 q11.2 Hs.348504 hypothetical protein BC014072
    78 39 AW003286 breast primary 17 q21.31 Hs.370428 ESTs Moderately similar to TP2A_HUMAN
    DNA topoisomerase II alpha isozyme
    [H. sapiens]
    79 41 AL561834 breast primary 17 q21.31 Hs.156346 topoisomerase (DNA) II alpha 170 kDa
    80 48 L47276 breast primary 17 q21.31 NULL unknown
    81 49 BC001038 breast primary 17 q22 Hs.307036 Homo sapiens Similar to epsin 3 clone
    MGC: 1006 IMAGE: 3505495 mRNA complete
    cds
    82 40 AA424160 breast primary 17 q23.2 Hs.165909 ESTs Weakly similar to hypothetical protein
    FLJ20489 [Homo sapiens] [H. sapiens]
    83 51 BF029215 breast primary 17 q23.2 Hs.103512 Homo sapiens cDNA FLJ36569 fis clone
    TRACH2010824 highly similar to
    Ribonucleoprotein
    84 43 AI675178 breast primary 17 q24.2 Hs.90207 hypothetical protein MGC11138
    85 50 U28386 breast primary 17 q24.3 Hs.159557 karyopherin alpha 2 (RAG cohort 1 importin
    alpha 1)
    86 46 AA635844 breast primary 17 q25.3 Hs.109706 hematological and neurological expressed 1
    87 47 K02581 breast primary 17 q25.3 Hs.105097 thymidine kinase 1 soluble
    88 52 AF017790 breast primary 18 p11.32 Hs.58169 highly expressed in cancer rich in leucine
    heptad repeats
    89 53 AA719022 breast primary 19 q13.43 Hs.288549 ubiquitin UBF-fl
    90 65 D80008 breast primary 20 p11.21 Hs.36232 KIAA0186 gene product
    91 63 AI990405 breast primary 20 p11.23 Hs.194691 retinoic acid induced 3
    92 57 AA534688 breast primary 20 q11.1 Hs.9329 chromosome 20 open reading frame 1
    93 66 AW003586 breast primary 20 q11.22 Hs.274411 SCAN domain containing 1
    94 59 U73379 breast primary 20 q13.12 Hs.93002 ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme E2C
    95 62 AI990026 breast primary 20 q13.12 Hs.286 ribosomal protein L4
    96 67 AA207074 breast primary 20 q13.13 Hs.56237 breast carcinoma amplified sequence 4
    97 60 AF041260 breast primary 20 q13.2 Hs.129057 breast carcinoma amplified sequence 1
    98 61 AF011468 breast primary 20 q13.31 Hs.250822 serine/threonine kinase 6
    99 58 AA535819 breast primary 20 q13.32 Hs.83883 transmembrane prostate androgen induced
    RNA
    100 64 X70940 breast primary 20 q13.33 Hs.2642 eukaryotic translation elongation factor 1 alpha 2
    101 69 Y15915 breast primary 22 q13.1 Hs.172928 collagen type I alpha 1
    102 70 AL035081 breast primary 22 q13.1 Hs.250696 KDEL (Lys-Asp-Glu-Leu) endoplasmic
    reticulum protein retention receptor 3
    103 68 AI381686 breast primary 22 q13.2 Hs.208912 hypothetical protein MGC861
    104 106 AK000490 breast metastatic 1 p31.2 Hs.133260 hypothetical protein FLJ20354
    105 113 R33352 breast metastatic 1 p31.3 NULL unknown
    106 116 AI739473 breast metastatic 1 p32.3 Hs.75616 24-dehydrocholesterol reductase
    107 108 U63743 breast metastatic 1 p34.1 Hs.69360 kinesin-like 6 (mitotic centromere-associated
    kinesin)
    108 105 U05340 breast metastatic 1 p34.2 Hs.82906 CDC20 cell division cycle 20 homolog (S. cerevisiae)
    109 119 AI992172 breast metastatic 1 p36.13 Hs.83551 microfibrillar-associated protein 2
    110 114 AA203213 breast metastatic 1 p36.33 Hs.833 interferon-stimulated protein 15 kDa
    111 115 T16144 breast metastatic 1 q21.3 NULL unknown
    112 104 AI053741 breast metastatic 1 q22 Hs.133294 ESTs
    113 118 AB037776 breast metastatic 1 q23.1 Hs.38002 immunoglobulin superfamily member 9
    114 112 AA830844 breast metastatic 1 q23.2 Hs.127310 kinase interacting with leukemia-associated
    gene (stathmin)
    115 120 R62346 breast metastatic 1 q23.2 NULL unknown
    116 110 AF326731 breast metastatic 1 q23.3 Hs.234545 cell division cycle associated 1
    117 117 AI983896 breast metastatic 1 q23.3 Hs.191187 ESTs
    118 121 AI798144 breast metastatic 1 q25.2 Hs.209609 ESTs
    119 107 AI990409 breast metastatic 1 q32.1 Hs.5199 HSPC150 protein similar to ubiquitin-
    conjugating enzyme
    120 111 AI380204 breast metastatic 1 q32.1 Hs.118064 similar to rat nuclear ubiquitous casein kinase 2
    121 109 U30872 breast metastatic 1 q32.3 Hs.77204 centromere protein F 350/400 ka (mitosin)
    122 169 U14518 breast metastatic 2 p23.3 Hs.1594 centromere protein A 17 kDa
    123 168 AI492879 breast metastatic 2 p25.1 Hs.75319 ribonucleotide reductase M2 polypeptide
    124 170 AL045632 breast metastatic 2 q33.1 Hs.44269 hypothetical protein FLJ25211
    125 171 N21131 breast metastatic 2 q37.3 Hs.42949 hairy and enhancer of split 6 (Drosophila)
    126 191 M86699 breast metastatic 3 p21.31 Hs.169840 TTK protein kinase
    127 197 AA663786 breast metastatic 3 p21.31 NULL unknown
    128 194 AI962335 breast metastatic 3 p24.3 Hs.196042 ESTs
    129 195 AB020713 breast metastatic 3 p25.1 Hs.56966 KIAA0906 protein
    130 188 AI557210 breast metastatic 3 q12.3 Hs.41271 Homo sapiens mRNA full length insert cDNA
    clone EUROIMAGE 1913076
    131 189 X57527 breast metastatic 3 q12.3 Hs.114599 collagen type VIII alpha 1
    132 192 W02608 breast metastatic 3 q26.1 Hs.36830 ESTs Moderately similar to zinc finger protein
    91 (HPF7 HTF10) [Homo sapiens] [H. sapiens]
    133 193 AI760298 breast metastatic 3 q26.31 Hs.128773 ESTs
    134 190 AI823992 breast metastatic 3 q26.32 Hs.122579 epithelial cell transforming sequence 2
    oncogene
    135 196 AI087975 breast metastatic 3 q28 Hs.195225 ESTs
    136 201 AW001872 breast metastatic 5 p13.1 Hs.58435 FYN binding protein (FYB-120/130)
    137 199 N90191 breast metastatic 5 q13.2 Hs.23960 cyclin B1
    138 200 U70370 breast metastatic 5 q31.1 Hs.84136 paired-like homeodomain transcription factor 1
    139 198 AI739117 breast metastatic 5 q31.2 Hs.73625 RAB6 interacting kinesin-like (rabkinesin6)
    140 202 D14678 breast metastatic 6 p21.32 Hs.20830 kinesin-like 2
    141 204 M13436 breast metastatic 7 p14.1 Hs.727 inhibin beta A (activin A activin AB alpha
    polypeptide)
    142 205 AA059458 breast metastatic 7 p14.1 Hs.28792 Homo sapiens cDNA FLJ11041 fis clone
    PLACE1004405
    143 203 AK023208 breast metastatic 7 p14.2 Hs.62180 anillin actin binding protein (scraps homolog
    Drosophila)
    144 211 AI742239 breast metastatic 7 p15.1 Hs.91109 Homo sapiens Similar to RIKEN cDNA
    E130201N16 gene clone IMAGE: 3845782
    mRNA
    145 208 AI285531 breast metastatic 7 p15.2 Hs.106260 sorting nexin 10
    146 206 AI922323 breast metastatic 7 p21.1 Hs.91011 anterior gradient 2 homolog (Xenepus laevis)
    147 209 AI961907 breast metastatic 7 q21.3 Hs.179573 collagen type I alpha 2
    148 210 L37127 breast metastatic 7 q22.1 Hs.80475 polymerase (RNA) II (DNA directed)
    polypeptide J 13.3 kDa
    149 207 U61145 breast metastatic 7 q36.1 Hs.77256 enhancer of zeste homolog 2 (Drosophila)
    150 220 AA625199 breast metastatic 8 NULL Hs.352415 solute carrier family 39 (zinc transporter)
    member 4
    151 223 AI949095 breast metastatic 8 NULL Hs.67776 Homo sapiens clone IMAGE: 5455669 mRNA
    partial cds
    152 224 W22510 breast metastatic 8 NULL Hs.346950 cellular retinoic acid binding protein 1
    153 225 AA292431 breast metastatic 8 NULL Hs.92679 kinesin family member C2-like
    154 226 AI917311 breast metastatic 8 NULL Hs.149152 rhophilin 1
    155 212 AI932328 breast metastatic 8 p21.1 Hs.104741 T-LAK cell-originated protein kinase
    156 213 AA203476 breast metastatic 8 q13.2 Hs.252587 pituitary tumor-transforming 1
    157 215 BE500977 breast metastatic 8 q13.3 Hs.70823 sulfatase FP
    158 217 BE974098 breast metastatic 8 q21.13 Hs.2384 tumor protein D52
    159 219 AF091433 breast metastatic 8 q22.1 Hs.30464 cyclin E2
    160 222 AA610522 breast metastatic 8 q24.11 Hs.162697 ESTs
    161 216 AA046853 breast metastatic 8 q24.12 Hs.76550 mal T-cell differentiation protein 2
    162 218 AI656807 breast metastatic 8 q24.13 Hs.222088 hypothetical protein MGC5254
    163 221 D78130 breast metastatic 8 q24.13 Hs.71465 squalene epoxidase
    164 214 AA147884 breast metastatic 8 q24.22 Hs.9812 Homo sapiens cDNA FLJ14388 fis clone
    HEMBA1002716
    165 229 AW007586 breast metastatic 9 q34.11 Hs.133122 zinc finger DHHC domain containing 12
    166 227 W25552 breast metastatic 9 q34.3 Hs.212613 hypothetical protein FLJ36779
    167 228 AI811865 breast metastatic 9 q34.3 Hs.274152 EST
    168 124 AF067656 breast metastatic 10 q21.1 Hs.42650 ZW10 interactor
    169 123 D88357 breast metastatic 10 q21.2 Hs.334562 cell division cycle 2 G1 to S and G2 to M
    170 122 AI674163 breast metastatic 10 q23.33 Hs.14559 hypothetical protein FLJ10540
    171 125 U37426 breast metastatic 10 q23.33 Hs.8878 kinesin-like 1
    172 131 AA705015 breast metastatic 11 p15.1 Hs.185918 Homo sapiens cDNA FLJ32525 fis clone
    SMINT2000060
    173 129 AB018293 breast metastatic 11 p15.3 Hs.314434 KIAA0750 gene product
    174 126 AL079372 breast metastatic 11 q13.1 Hs.23044 similar to RIKEN cDNA 2610036L13
    175 130 AF151810 breast metastatic 11 q13.4 Hs.84700 serologically defined colon cancer antigen 28
    176 127 X14850 breast metastatic 11 q23.3 Hs.147097 H2A histone family member X
    177 128 AA704137 breast metastatic 11 q23.3 Hs.125359 Thy-1 cell surface antigen
    178 132 U74612 breast metastatic 12 p13.33 Hs.239 forkhead box M1
    179 133 U82984 breast metastatic 12 q13.12 Hs.23900 Rac GTPase activating protein 1
    180 134 R61322 breast metastatic 12 q24.31 Hs.204166 Human clone 295 5cM region surrounding
    hepatocyte nuclear factor-1a/MODY3 mRNA
    181 135 AI291142 breast metastatic 13 q33.3 Hs.183874 cullin 4A
    182 136 L25876 breast metastatic 14 q22.1 Hs.84113 cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor 3 (CDK2-
    associated dual specificity phosphatase)
    183 137 AL080146 breast metastatic 15 q21.3 Hs.194698 cyclin B2
    184 138 D14657 breast metastatic 15 q22.2 Hs.81892 KIAA0101 gene product
    185 139 AA195614 breast metastatic 15 q25.3 Hs.344037 protein regulator of cytokinesis 1
    186 141 AW003626 breast metastatic 16 NULL Hs.159154 tubulin beta 4
    187 142 BC003186 breast metastatic 16 NULL Hs.108196 HSPC037 protein
    188 149 AI766311 breast metastatic 16 p12.3 Hs.289047 Homo sapiens cDNA FLJ14059 fis clone
    HEMBB1000573
    189 151 AI344053 breast metastatic 16 p12.3 Hs.115838 ESTs Highly similar to hypothetical protein
    FLJ13593 [Homo sapiens] [H. sapiens]
    190 140 AI819340 breast metastatic 16 p13.3 Hs.13561 hypothetical protein MGC4692
    191 144 W92110 breast metastatic 16 p13.3 Hs.279623 selenoprotein × 1
    192 145 AI953838 breast metastatic 16 p13.3 Hs.124015 hypothetical protein MGC2605
    193 146 AL520675 breast metastatic 16 p13.3 Hs.351474 hypothetical protein FLJ30002
    194 147 BE965311 breast metastatic 16 p13.3 Hs.124915 hypothetical protein MGC2601
    195 148 AI701742 breast metastatic 16 p13.3 Hs.290943 Homo sapiens similar to possible G-protein
    receptor clone MGC: 21993 IMAGE: 4398317
    mRNA complete cds
    196 150 AI655799 breast metastatic 16 p13.3 Hs.197114 serine/arginine repetitive matrix 2
    197 143 AA904482 breast metastatic 16 q12.2 Hs.368078 ESTs
    198 154 AI683036 breast metastatic 17 NULL Hs.314169 KIAA1618 protein
    199 156 U81800 breast metastatic 17 NULL Hs.85838 solute carrier family 16 (monocarboxylic acid
    transporters) member 3
    200 157 BE328850 breast metastatic 17 q11.2 Hs.348504 hypothetical protein BC014072
    201 152 AW003286 breast metastatic 17 q21.31 Hs.370428 ESTs Moderately similar to TP2A_HUMAN
    DNA topoisomerase II alpha isozyme
    [H. sapiens]
    202 158 AI375913 breast metastatic 17 q21.31 Hs.156346 topoisomerase (DNA) II alpha 170 kDa
    203 161 L47276 breast metastatic 17 q21.31 NULL unknown
    204 162 BC001038 breast metastatic 17 q22 Hs.307036 Homo sapiens Similar to epsin 3 clone
    MGC: 1006 IMAGE: 3505495 mRNA complete
    cds
    205 153 AA424160 breast metastatic 17 q23.2 Hs.165909 ESTs Weakly similar to hypothetical protein
    FLJ20489 [Homo sapiens] [H. sapiens]
    206 164 BF029215 breast metastatic 17 q23.2 Hs.103512 Homo sapiens cDNA FLJ36569 fis clone
    TRACH2010824 highly similar to
    Ribonucleoprotein
    207 155 AI675178 breast metastatic 17 q24.2 Hs.90207 hypothetical protein MGC11138
    208 163 U28386 breast metastatic 17 q24.3 Hs.159557 karyopherin alpha 2 (RAG cohort 1 importin
    alpha 1)
    209 165 N42752 breast metastatic 17 q24.3 Hs.42645 ESTs
    210 159 K02581 breast metastatic 17 q25.3 Hs.105097 thymidine kinase 1 soluble
    211 160 AI525822 breast metastatic 17 q25.3 Hs.109706 hematological and neurological expressed 1
    212 166 AF017790 breast metastatic 18 p11.32 Hs.58169 highly expressed in cancer rich in leucine
    heptad repeats
    213 167 AA719022 breast metastatic 19 q13.43 Hs.288549 ubiquitin UBF-fl
    214 180 D80008 breast metastatic 20 p11.21 Hs.36232 KIAA0186 gene product
    215 178 AI990405 breast metastatic 20 p11.23 Hs.194691 retinoic acid induced 3
    216 177 AF098158 breast metastatic 20 q11.1 Hs.9329 chromosome 20 open reading frame 1
    217 181 AW003586 breast metastatic 20 q11.22 Hs.274411 SCAN domain containing 1
    218 173 U73379 breast metastatic 20 q13.12 Hs.93002 ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme E2C
    219 176 AI990026 breast metastatic 20 q13.12 Hs.286 ribosomal protein L4
    220 182 AA207074 breast metastatic 20 q13.13 Hs.56237 breast carcinoma amplified sequence 4
    221 174 AF041260 breast metastatic 20 q13.2 Hs.129057 breast carcinoma amplified sequence 1
    222 183 AI638036 breast metastatic 20 q13.2 Hs.189095 sal-like 4 (Drosophila)
    223 175 AF011468 breast metastatic 20 q13.31 Hs.250822 serine/threonine kinase 6
    224 172 AA535819 breast metastatic 20 q13.32 Hs.83883 transmembrane prostate androgen induced
    RNA
    225 179 X70940 breast metastatic 20 q13.33 Hs.2642 eukaryotic translation elongation factor 1 alpha 2
    226 184 AI872267 breast metastatic 20 q13.33 Hs.224895 ESTs
    227 186 Y15915 breast metastatic 22 q13.1 Hs.172928 collagen type I alpha 1
    228 187 AL035081 breast metastatic 22 q13.1 Hs.250696 KDEL (Lys-Asp-Glu-Leu) endoplasmic
    reticulum protein retention receptor 3
    229 185 AI961206 breast metastatic 22 q13.2 Hs.208912 hypothetical protein MGC861
    230 241 AK000490 colon primary 1 p31.2 Hs.133260 hypothetical protein FLJ20354
    231 235 R33352 colon primary 1 p31.3 NULL unknown
    232 233 AI739473 colon primary 1 p32.3 Hs.75616 24-dehydrocholesterol reductase
    233 239 U63743 colon primary 1 p34.1 Hs.69360 kinesin-like 6 (mitotic centromere-associated
    kinesin)
    234 243 U05340 colon primary 1 p34.2 Hs.82906 CDC20 cell division cycle 20 homolog (S. cerevisiae)
    235 242 AI990026 colon primary 1 p35.3 Hs.286 ribosomal protein L4
    236 234 T16144 colon primary 1 q21.3 NULL unknown
    237 232 AW271106 colon primary 1 q22 Hs.133294 ESTs
    238 230 AB037776 colon primary 1 q23.1 Hs.38002 immunoglobulin superfamily member 9
    239 236 AA830844 colon primary 1 q23.2 Hs.127310 kinase interacting with leukemia-associated
    gene (stathmin)
    240 231 AA383718 colon primary 1 q23.3 Hs.234545 cell division cycle associated 1
    241 237 AI380204 colon primary 1 q32.1 Hs.118064 similar to rat nuclear ubiquitous casein kinase 2
    242 240 AI990409 colon primary 1 q32.1 Hs.5199 HSPC150 protein similar to ubiquitin-
    conjugating enzyme
    243 238 U30872 colon primary 1 q32.3 Hs.77204 centromere protein F 350/400 ka (mitosin)
    244 284 U14518 colon primary 2 p23.3 Hs.1594 centromere protein A 17 kDa
    245 285 BE966236 colon primary 2 p25.1 Hs.75319 ribonucleotide reductase M2 polypeptide
    246 283 AL045632 colon primary 2 q33.1 Hs.44269 hypothetical protein FLJ25211
    247 302 M86699 colon primary 3 p21.31 Hs.169840 TTK protein kinase
    248 301 AI962335 colon primary 3 p24.3 Hs.196042 ESTs
    249 300 AB020713 colon primary 3 p25.1 Hs.56966 KIAA0906 protein
    250 304 X57527 colon primary 3 q12.3 Hs.114599 collagen type VIII alpha 1
    251 305 AI557210 colon primary 3 q12.3 Hs.41271 Homo sapiens mRNA full length insert cDNA
    clone EUROIMAGE 1913076
    252 303 AI823992 colon primary 3 q26.32 Hs.122579 epithelial cell transforming sequence 2
    oncogene
    253 299 AI087975 colon primary 3 q28 Hs.195225 ESTs
    254 307 AW001872 colon primary 5 p13.1 Hs.58435 FYN binding protein (FYB-120/130)
    255 306 M25753 colon primary 5 q13.2 Hs.23960 cyclin B1
    256 308 U70370 colon primary 5 q31.1 Hs.84136 paired-like homeodomain transcription factor 1
    257 309 AI739117 colon primary 5 q31.2 Hs.73625 RAB6 interacting kinesin-like (rabkinesin6)
    258 310 D14678 colon primary 6 p21.32 Hs.20830 kinesin-like 2
    259 313 AA059458 colon primary 7 p14.1 Hs.28792 Homo sapiens cDNA FLJ11041 fis clone
    PLACE1004405
    260 315 M13436 colon primary 7 p14.1 Hs.727 inhibin beta A (activin A activin AB alpha
    polypeptide)
    261 314 AI341261 colon primary 7 p14.2 Hs.62180 anillin actin binding protein (scraps homolog
    Drosophila)
    262 312 AI922323 colon primary 7 p21.1 Hs.91011 anterior gradient 2 homolog (Xenepus laevis)
    263 311 U61145 colon primary 7 q36.1 Hs.77256 enhancer of zeste homolog 2 (Drosophila)
    264 316 AI949095 colon primary 8 NULL Hs.67776 Homo sapiens clone IMAGE: 5455669 mRNA
    partial cds
    265 318 AA625199 colon primary 8 NULL Hs.352415 solute carrier family 39 (zinc transporter)
    member 4
    266 325 AI932328 colon primary 8 p21.1 Hs.104741 T-LAK cell-originated protein kinase
    267 324 AA203476 colon primary 8 q13.2 Hs.252587 pituitary tumor-transforming 1
    268 323 AW043713 colon primary 8 q13.3 Hs.70823 sulfatase FP
    269 319 AF091433 colon primary 8 q22.1 Hs.30464 cyclin E2
    270 321 AL117612 colon primary 8 q24.12 Hs.76550 mal T-cell differentiation protein 2
    271 317 D78130 colon primary 8 q24.13 Hs.71465 squalene epoxidase
    272 320 AI656807 colon primary 8 q24.13 Hs.222088 hypothetical protein MGC5254
    273 322 AA147884 colon primary 8 q24.22 Hs.9812 Homo sapiens cDNA FLJ14388 fis clone
    HEMBA1002716
    274 326 AW007586 colon primary 9 q34.11 Hs.133122 zinc finger DHHC domain containing 12
    275 327 AI811865 colon primary 9 q34.3 Hs.274152 EST
    276 328 W25552 colon primary 9 q34.3 Hs.212613 hypothetical protein FLJ36779
    277 244 AF067656 colon primary 10 q21.1 Hs.42650 ZW10 interactor
    278 245 AL524035 colon primary 10 q21.2 Hs.334562 cell division cycle 2 G1 to S and G2 to M
    279 246 AI674163 colon primary 10 q23.33 Hs.14559 hypothetical protein FLJ10540
    280 248 AB018293 colon primary 11 p15.3 Hs.314434 KIAA0750 gene product
    281 251 AL079372 colon primary 11 q13.1 Hs.23044 similar to RIKEN cDNA 2610036L13
    282 247 D60944 colon primary 11 q13.4 Hs.84700 serologically defined colon cancer antigen 28
    283 249 AA704137 colon primary 11 q23.3 Hs.125359 Thy-1 cell surface antigen
    284 250 X14850 colon primary 11 q23.3 Hs.147097 H2A histone family member X
    285 253 U74612 colon primary 12 p13.33 Hs.239 forkhead box M1
    286 252 U82984 colon primary 12 q13.12 Hs.23900 Rac GTPase activating protein 1
    287 254 AI291142 colon primary 13 q33.3 Hs.183874 cullin 4A
    288 255 L25876 colon primary 14 q22.1 Hs.84113 cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor 3 (CDK2-
    associated dual specificity phosphatase)
    289 258 AL080146 colon primary 15 q21.3 Hs.194698 cyclin B2
    290 257 D14657 colon primary 15 q22.2 Hs.81892 KIAA0101 gene product
    291 256 AA195614 colon primary 15 q25.3 Hs.344037 protein regulator of cytokinesis 1
    292 265 BC003186 colon primary 16 NULL Hs.108196 HSPC037 protein
    293 266 AW003626 colon primary 16 NULL Hs.159154 tubulin beta 4
    294 259 AI701742 colon primary 16 p13.3 Hs.290943 Homo sapiens similar to possible G-protein
    receptor clone MGC: 21993 IMAGE: 4398317
    mRNA complete cds
    295 260 BE965311 colon primary 16 p13.3 Hs.124915 hypothetical protein MGC2601
    296 261 AL520675 colon primary 16 p13.3 Hs.351474 hypothetical protein FLJ30002
    297 262 AI953838 colon primary 16 p13.3 Hs.124015 hypothetical protein MGC2605
    298 263 W92110 colon primary 16 p13.3 Hs.279623 selenoprotein × 1
    299 267 AI819340 colon primary 16 p13.3 Hs.13561 hypothetical protein MGC4692
    300 264 AA904482 colon primary 16 q12.2 Hs.368078 ESTs
    301 276 U81800 colon primary 17 NULL Hs.85838 solute carrier family 16 (monocarboxylic acid
    transporters) member 3
    302 278 AI683036 colon primary 17 NULL Hs.314169 KIAA1618 protein
    303 275 BE328850 colon primary 17 q11.2 Hs.348504 hypothetical protein BC014072
    304 272 L47276 colon primary 17 q21.31 NULL unknown
    305 274 AI375913 colon primary 17 q21.31 Hs.156346 topoisomerase (DNA) II alpha 170 kDa
    306 280 AW003286 colon primary 17 q21.31 Hs.370428 ESTs Moderately similar to TP2A_HUMAN
    DNA topoisomerase II alpha isozyme
    [H. sapiens]
    307 271 BC001038 colon primary 17 q22 Hs.307036 Homo sapiens Similar to epsin 3 clone
    MGC: 1006 IMAGE: 3505495 mRNA complete
    cds
    308 269 BF029215 colon primary 17 q23.2 Hs.103512 Homo sapiens cDNA FLJ36569 fis clone
    TRACH2010824 highly similar to
    Ribonucleoprotein
    309 279 BG165011 colon primary 17 q23.2 Hs.165909 ESTs Weakly similar to hypothetical protein
    FLJ20489 [Homo sapiens] [H. sapiens]
    310 277 AI675178 colon primary 17 q24.2 Hs.90207 hypothetical protein MGC11138
    311 270 U28386 colon primary 17 q24.3 Hs.159557 karyopherin alpha 2 (RAG cohort 1 importin
    alpha 1)
    312 268 AI525822 colon primary 17 q25.3 Hs.109706 hematological and neurological expressed 1
    313 273 K02581 colon primary 17 q25.3 Hs.105097 thymidine kinase 1 soluble
    314 281 AF017790 colon primary 18 p11.32 Hs.58169 highly expressed in cancer rich in leucine
    heptad repeats
    315 282 AA719022 colon primary 19 q13.43 Hs.288549 ubiquitin UBF-fl
    316 288 D80008 colon primary 20 p11.21 Hs.36232 KIAA0186 gene product
    317 290 AI990405 colon primary 20 p11.23 Hs.194691 retinoic acid induced 3
    318 291 AF098158 colon primary 20 q11.1 Hs.9329 chromosome 20 open reading frame 1
    319 287 AW003586 colon primary 20 q11.22 Hs.274411 SCAN domain containing 1
    320 294 U73379 colon primary 20 q13.12 Hs.93002 ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme E2C
    321 286 AA207074 colon primary 20 q13.13 Hs.56237 breast carcinoma amplified sequence 4
    322 293 AF041260 colon primary 20 q13.2 Hs.129057 breast carcinoma amplified sequence 1
    323 292 AF011468 colon primary 20 q13.31 Hs.250822 serine/threonine kinase 6
    324 295 AA535819 colon primary 20 q13.32 Hs.83883 transmembrane prostate androgen induced
    RNA
    325 289 X70940 colon primary 20 q13.33 Hs.2642 eukaryotic translation elongation factor 1 alpha 2
    326 296 AL035081 colon primary 22 q13.1 Hs.250696 KDEL (Lys-Asp-Glu-Leu) endoplasmic
    reticulum protein retention receptor 3
    327 297 Y15916 colon primary 22 q13.1 Hs.172928 collagen type I alpha 1
    328 298 AI381686 colon primary 22 q13.2 Hs.208912 hypothetical protein MGC861
    329 420 AK000490 colon metastatic 1 p31.2 Hs.133260 hypothetical protein FLJ20354
    330 354 R33352 colon metastatic 1 p31.3 NULL unknown
    331 351 AI739473 colon metastatic 1 p32.3 Hs.75616 24-dehydrocholesterol reductase
    332 396 U63743 colon metastatic 1 p34.1 Hs.69360 kinesin-like 6 (mitotic centromere-associated
    kinesin)
    333 425 U05340 colon metastatic 1 p34.2 Hs.82906 CDC20 cell division cycle 20 homolog (S. cerevisiae)
    334 421 AI990026 colon metastatic 1 p35.3 Hs.286 ribosomal protein L4
    335 352 T16144 colon metastatic 1 q21.3 NULL unknown
    336 346 AW271106 colon metastatic 1 q22 Hs.133294 ESTs
    337 340 AB037776 colon metastatic 1 q23.1 Hs.38002 immunoglobulin superfamily member 9
    338 357 AA830844 colon metastatic 1 q23.2 Hs.127310 kinase interacting with leukemia-associated
    gene (stathmin)
    339 330 AF326731 colon metastatic 1 q23.3 Hs.234545 cell division cycle associated 1
    340 341 AI983896 colon metastatic 1 q23.3 Hs.191187 ESTs
    341 380 AF326731 colon metastatic 1 q23.3 Hs.234545 cell division cycle associated 1
    342 360 AI380204 colon metastatic 1 q32.1 Hs.118064 similar to rat nuclear ubiquitous casein kinase 2
    343 403 AI990409 colon metastatic 1 q32.1 Hs.5199 HSPC150 protein similar to ubiquitin-
    conjugating enzyme
    344 382 U30872 colon metastatic 1 q32.3 Hs.77204 centromere protein F 350/400 ka (mitosin)
    345 400 U14518 colon metastatic 2 p23.3 Hs.1594 centromere protein A 17 kDa
    346 419 BE966236 colon metastatic 2 p25.1 Hs.75319 ribonucleotide reductase M2 polypeptide
    347 349 AL045632 colon metastatic 2 q33.1 Hs.44269 hypothetical protein FLJ25211
    348 365 M86699 colon metastatic 3 p21.31 Hs.169840 TTK protein kinase
    349 334 AI962335 colon metastatic 3 p24.3 Hs.196042 ESTs
    350 333 AB020713 colon metastatic 3 p25.1 Hs.56966 KIAA0906 protein
    351 412 X57527 colon metastatic 3 q12.3 Hs.114599 collagen type VIII alpha 1
    352 417 AI557210 colon metastatic 3 q12.3 Hs.41271 Homo sapiens mRNA full length insert cDNA
    clone EUROIMAGE 1913076
    353 344 W02608 colon metastatic 3 q26.1 Hs.36830 ESTs Moderately similar to zinc finger protein
    91 (HPF7 HTF10) [Homo sapiens] [H. sapiens]
    354 395 AI823992 colon metastatic 3 q26.32 Hs.122579 epithelial cell transforming sequence 2
    oncogene
    355 332 AI087975 colon metastatic 3 q28 Hs.195225 ESTs
    356 409 AW001872 colon metastatic 5 p13.1 Hs.58435 FYN binding protein (FYB-120/130)
    357 408 M25753 colon metastatic 5 q13.2 Hs.23960 cyclin B1
    358 410 U70370 colon metastatic 5 q31.1 Hs.84136 paired-like homeodomain transcription factor 1
    359 434 AI739117 colon metastatic 5 q31.2 Hs.73625 RAB6 interacting kinesin-like (rabkinesin6)
    360 389 D14678 colon metastatic 6 p21.32 Hs.20830 kinesin-like 2
    361 427 AA059458 colon metastatic 7 p14.1 Hs.28792 Homo sapiens cDNA FLJ11041 fis clone
    PLACE1004405
    362 436 AI343467 colon metastatic 7 p14.1 Hs.28792 Homo sapiens cDNA FLJ11041 fis clone
    PLACE1004405
    363 437 M13436 colon metastatic 7 p14.1 Hs.727 inhibin beta A (activin A activin AB alpha
    polypeptide)
    364 329 AK023208 colon metastatic 7 p14.2 Hs.62180 anillin actin binding protein (scraps homolog
    Drosophila)
    365 438 AK023208 colon metastatic 7 p14.2 Hs.62180 anillin actin binding protein (scraps homolog
    Drosophila)
    366 440 AK023208 colon metastatic 7 p14.2 Hs.62180 anillin actin binding protein (scraps homolog
    Drosophila)
    367 348 AI285531 colon metastatic 7 p15.2 Hs.106260 sorting nexin 10
    368 392 AI922323 colon metastatic 7 p21.1 Hs.91011 anterior gradient 2 homolog (Xenepus laevis)
    369 339 AI961907 colon metastatic 7 q21.3 Hs.179573 collagen type I alpha 2
    370 356 U61145 colon metastatic 7 q36.1 Hs.77256 enhancer of zeste homolog 2 (Drosophila)
    371 336 AI949095 colon metastatic 8 NULL Hs.67776 Homo sapiens clone IMAGE: 5455669 mRNA
    partial cds
    372 362 AA625199 colon metastatic 8 NULL Hs.352415 solute carrier family 39 (zinc transporter)
    member 4
    373 439 AI932328 colon metastatic 8 p21.1 Hs.104741 T-LAK cell-originated protein kinase
    374 428 AA203476 colon metastatic 8 q13.2 Hs.252587 pituitary tumor-transforming 1
    375 414 AW043713 colon metastatic 8 q13.3 Hs.70823 sulfatase FP
    376 345 AA524023 colon metastatic 8 q21.13 Hs.2384 tumor protein D52
    377 363 AF091433 colon metastatic 8 q22.1 Hs.30464 cyclin E2
    378 342 AA610522 colon metastatic 8 q24.11 Hs.162697 ESTs
    379 373 AL117612 colon metastatic 8 q24.12 Hs.76550 mal T-cell differentiation protein 2
    380 347 D78130 colon metastatic 8 q24.13 Hs.71465 squalene epoxidase
    381 366 AI656807 colon metastatic 8 q24.13 Hs.222088 hypothetical protein MGC5254
    382 388 AA147884 colon metastatic 8 q24.22 Hs.9812 Homo sapiens cDNA FLJ14388 fis clone
    HEMBA1002716
    383 374 AW007586 colon metastatic 9 q34.11 Hs.133122 zinc finger DHHC domain containing 12
    384 383 AI811865 colon metastatic 9 q34.3 Hs.274152 EST
    385 393 W25552 colon metastatic 9 q34.3 Hs.212613 hypothetical protein FLJ36779
    386 355 AF067656 colon metastatic 10 q21.1 Hs.42650 ZW10 interactor
    387 368 X05360 colon metastatic 10 q21.2 Hs.334562 cell division cycle 2 G1 to S and G2 to M
    388 416 AI674163 colon metastatic 10 q23.33 Hs.14559 hypothetical protein FLJ10540
    389 337 AA705015 colon metastatic 11 p15.1 Hs.185918 Homo sapiens cDNA FLJ32525 fis clone
    SMINT2000060
    390 372 AB018293 colon metastatic 11 p15.3 Hs.314434 KIAA0750 gene product
    391 401 AL079372 colon metastatic 11 q13.1 Hs.23044 similar to RIKEN cDNA 2610036L13
    392 350 D60944 colon metastatic 11 q13.4 Hs.84700 serologically defined colon cancer antigen 28
    393 379 AA704137 colon metastatic 11 q23.3 Hs.125359 Thy-1 cell surface antigen
    394 381 X14850 colon metastatic 11 q23.3 Hs.147097 H2A histone family member X
    395 429 U74612 colon metastatic 12 p13.33 Hs.239 forkhead box M1
    396 384 U82984 colon metastatic 12 q13.12 Hs.23900 Rac GTPase activating protein 1
    397 343 R61322 colon metastatic 12 q24.31 Hs.204166 Human clone 295 5cM region surrounding
    hepatocyte nuclear factor-1a/MODY3 mRNA
    398 353 AI291142 colon metastatic 13 q33.3 Hs.183874 cullin 4A
    399 387 L25876 colon metastatic 14 q22.1 Hs.84113 cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor 3 (CDK2-
    associated dual specificity phosphatase)
    400 423 AL080146 colon metastatic 15 q21.3 Hs.194698 cyclin B2
    401 413 D14657 colon metastatic 15 q22.2 Hs.81892 KIAA0101 gene product
    402 406 AA195614 colon metastatic 15 q25.3 Hs.344037 protein regulator of cytokinesis 1
    403 407 BC003186 colon metastatic 16 NULL Hs.108196 HSPC037 protein
    404 415 AW003626 colon metastatic 16 NULL Hs.159154 tubulin beta 4
    405 358 AI701742 colon metastatic 16 p13.3 Hs.290943 Homo sapiens similar to possible G-protein
    receptor clone MGC: 21993 IMAGE: 4398317
    mRNA complete cds
    406 361 BE965311 colon metastatic 16 p13.3 Hs.124915 hypothetical protein MGC2601
    407 364 AL520675 colon metastatic 16 p13.3 Hs.351474 hypothetical protein FLJ30002
    408 377 AI953838 colon metastatic 16 p13.3 Hs.124015 hypothetical protein MGC2605
    409 385 W92110 colon metastatic 16 p13.3 Hs.279623 selenoprotein × 1
    410 431 AI819340 colon metastatic 16 p13.3 Hs.13561 hypothetical protein MGC4692
    411 405 AA904482 colon metastatic 16 q12.2 Hs.368078 ESTs
    412 391 U81800 colon metastatic 17 NULL Hs.85838 solute carrier family 16 (monocarboxylic acid
    transporters) member 3
    413 411 AI683036 colon metastatic 17 NULL Hs.314169 KIAA1618 protein
    414 390 BE328850 colon metastatic 17 q11.2 Hs.348504 hypothetical protein BC014072
    415 376 L47276 colon metastatic 17 q21.31 NULL unknown
    416 386 AI375913 colon metastatic 17 q21.31 Hs.156346 topoisomerase (DNA) II alpha 170 kDa
    417 432 AW003286 colon metastatic 17 q21.31 Hs.370428 ESTs Moderately similar to TP2A_HUMAN
    DNA topoisomerase II alpha isozyme
    [H. sapiens]
    418 375 BC001038 colon metastatic 17 q22 Hs.307036 Homo sapiens Similar to epsin 3 clone
    MGC: 1006 IMAGE: 3505495 mRNA complete
    cds
    419 359 BF029215 colon metastatic 17 q23.2 Hs.103512 Homo sapiens cDNA FLJ36569 fis clone
    TRACH2010824 highly similar to
    Ribonucleoprotein
    420 426 BG165011 colon metastatic 17 q23.2 Hs.165909 ESTs Weakly similar to hypothetical protein
    FLJ20489 [Homo sapiens] [H. sapiens]
    421 398 AI675178 colon metastatic 17 q24.2 Hs.90207 hypothetical protein MGC11138
    422 369 U28386 colon metastatic 17 q24.3 Hs.159557 karyopherin alpha 2 (RAG cohort 1 importin
    alpha 1)
    423 335 AI525822 colon metastatic 17 q25.3 Hs.109706 hematological and neurological expressed 1
    424 378 K02581 colon metastatic 17 q25.3 Hs.105097 thymidine kinase 1 soluble
    425 331 AF017790 colon metastatic 18 p11.32 Hs.58169 highly expressed in cancer rich in leucine
    heptad repeats
    426 404 AF017790 colon metastatic 18 p11.32 Hs.58169 highly expressed in cancer rich in leucine
    heptad repeats
    427 422 AA719022 colon metastatic 19 q13.43 Hs.288549 ubiquitin UBF-fl
    428 371 D80008 colon metastatic 20 p11.21 Hs.36232 KIAA0186 gene product
    429 399 AI990405 colon metastatic 20 p11.23 Hs.194691 retinoic acid induced 3
    430 402 AF098158 colon metastatic 20 q11.1 Hs.9329 chromosome 20 open reading frame 1
    431 370 AW003586 colon metastatic 20 q11.22 Hs.274411 SCAN domain containing 1
    432 433 U73379 colon metastatic 20 q13.12 Hs.93002 ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme E2C
    433 338 AA207074 colon metastatic 20 q13.13 Hs.56237 breast carcinoma amplified sequence 4
    434 430 AF041260 colon metastatic 20 q13.2 Hs.129057 breast carcinoma amplified sequence 1
    435 424 AF011468 colon metastatic 20 q13.31 Hs.250822 serine/threonine kinase 6
    436 435 AA535819 colon metastatic 20 q13.32 Hs.83883 transmembrane prostate androgen induced
    RNA
    437 394 X70940 colon metastatic 20 q13.33 Hs.2642 eukaryotic translation elongation factor 1 alpha 2
    438 367 AL035081 colon metastatic 22 q13.1 Hs.250696 KDEL (Lys-Asp-Glu-Leu) endoplasmic
    reticulum protein retention receptor 3
    439 397 Y15916 colon metastatic 22 q13.1 Hs.172928 collagen type I alpha 1
    440 418 AI381686 colon metastatic 22 q13.2 Hs.208912 hypothetical protein MGC861
    441 506 AA905821 lung primary 1 p31.3 Hs.145958 ESTs
    442 508 AI056599 lung primary 1 p31.3 Hs.120893 ESTs
    443 511 AW070459 lung primary 1 p31.3 Hs.259438 ESTs
    444 527 AK022113 lung primary 1 p31.3 Hs.301858 Homo sapiens cDNA FLJ13017 fis clone
    NT2RP3000628
    445 528 AU151151 lung primary 1 p31.3 Hs.11493 Homo sapiens cDNA FLJ13536 fis clone
    PLACE1006521
    446 547 AB044807 lung primary 1 p31.3 Hs.321197 PDZ domain protein (Drosophila inaD-like)
    447 485 AA012917 lung primary 1 p32.1 Hs.333541 beta-amyloid binding protein precursor
    448 498 BF224444 lung primary 1 p32.1 Hs.127274 ESTs
    449 526 AU147177 lung primary 1 p32.1 Hs.301237 Homo sapiens cDNA FLJ12095 fis clone
    HEMBB1002610
    450 473 AA926959 lung primary 1 q21.3 Hs.77550 p53-regulated DDA3
    451 443 AI053741 lung primary 1 q22 Hs.133294 ESTs
    452 448 AI766666 lung primary 1 q22 Hs.374850 apolipoprotein A-I binding protein
    453 469 AI739071 lung primary 1 q22 Hs.158515 hypothetical protein MGC13038
    454 441 AF326731 lung primary 1 q23.3 Hs.234545 cell division cycle associated 1
    455 446 BC002906 lung primary 1 q23.3 Hs.75939 uridine monophosphate kinase
    456 442 AA182412 lung primary 1 q25.3 Hs.32058 chromosome 1 open reading frame 19
    457 482 AA725362 lung primary 2 p11.1 NULL unknown
    458 472 AI990317 lung primary 2 p13.1 Hs.154672 methylene tetrahydrofolate dehydrogenase
    (NAD+ dependent) methenyltetrahydrofolate
    cyclohydrolase
    459 464 AI191897 lung primary 2 p16.2 Hs.105223 Homo sapiens Similar to RIKEN cDNA
    2510006C20 gene clone MGC: 24001
    IMAGE: 4050858 mRNA complete cds
    460 474 AI492879 lung primary 2 p25.1 Hs.75319 ribonucleotide reductase M2 polypeptide
    461 481 H24953 lung primary 2 q13 NULL unknown
    462 451 AA749314 lung primary 2 q31.1 Hs.333893 cell division cycle associated 7
    463 519 C00851 lung primary 5 p13.2 Hs.144264 ESTs Weakly similar to hypothetical protein
    FLJ20837 [Homo sapiens] [H. sapiens]
    464 458 AA383208 lung primary 5 p15.1 Hs.125249 ESTs
    465 548 AA524353 lung primary 6 p21.2 Hs.27693 peptidylprolyl isomerase (cyclophilin)-like 1
    466 522 AW005489 lung primary 6 p21.31 Hs.139800 high mobility group AT-hook 1
    467 538 AI677701 lung primary 6 p22.3 Hs.201619 hypothetical protein FLJ30829
    468 551 BG528420 lung primary 6 p22.3 Hs.83484 SRY (sex determining region Y)-box 4
    469 467 AI439141 lung primary 6 p23 Hs.261023 hypothetical protein FLJ20958
    470 539 AI279547 lung primary 6 p24.1 Hs.8645 hypothetical protein LOC51256
    471 540 W27692 lung primary 6 p24.2 Hs.273077 hypothetical protein MGC1223
    472 495 K03193 lung primary 7 p11.2 Hs.77432 epidermal growth factor receptor
    (erythroblastic leukemia viral (v-erb-b)
    oncogene homolog avian)
    473 496 AI806160 lung primary 7 p11.2 Hs.127991 ESTs
    474 497 AW138673 lung primary 7 p11.2 Hs.252928 ESTs
    475 502 H65306 lung primary 7 p11.2 Hs.205559 ESTs
    476 509 AW971863 lung primary 7 p11.2 Hs.103351 ESTs
    477 536 D60436 lung primary 7 p11.2 Hs.335933 Homo sapiens clone MGC: 33530
    IMAGE: 4820705 mRNA complete cds
    478 545 AI363001 lung primary 7 p11.2 Hs.134342 LanC lantibiotic synthetase component C-like
    2 (bacterial)
    479 524 AV700815 lung primary 7 p12.3 Hs.180171 Homo sapiens cDNA FLJ10417 fis clone
    NT2RP1000112
    480 486 AA740186 lung primary 7 p13 Hs.81029 biliverdin reductase A
    481 510 AI252004 lung primary 7 p13 Hs.284148 ESTs
    482 514 AW452419 lung primary 7 p13 Hs.296098 ESTs
    483 515 AI418313 lung primary 7 p13 Hs.152895 ESTs
    484 517 AI191118 lung primary 7 p13 Hs.222015 ESTs Moderately similar to cytokine receptor-
    like factor 2 cytokine receptor CRL2 precusor
    [Homo sapiens]
    485 523 AI823792 lung primary 7 p13 Hs.301005 histone H2A.F/Z variant
    486 533 AK025276 lung primary 7 p13 Hs.306791 Homo sapiens cDNA: FLJ21623 fis clone
    COL07915
    487 534 AL137266 lung primary 7 p13 Hs.332520 Homo sapiens mRNA cDNA DKFZp434A1014
    (from clone DKFZp434A1014) partial cds
    488 542 BC004903 lung primary 7 p13 Hs.9960 hypothetical protein MGC4607
    489 546 AF192523 lung primary 7 p13 Hs.47701 NPC1 (Niemann-Pick disease type C1 gene)-
    like 1
    490 550 AW194730 lung primary 7 p13 Hs.9075 serine/threonine kinase 17a (apoptosis-
    inducing)
    491 541 BC000769 lung primary 7 p14.1 Hs.59594 hypothetical protein MGC2821
    492 445 U97188 lung primary 7 p15.3 Hs.79440 IGF-II mRNA-binding protein 3
    493 465 AI910524 lung primary 7 p15.3 Hs.87385 hypothetical protein BC012331
    494 471 AI806483 lung primary 7 p15.3 Hs.108931 membrane protein palmitoylated 6 (MAGUK
    p55 subfamily member 6)
    495 494 AW402635 lung primary 7 q22.1 Hs.375569 DNA directed RNA polymerase II polypeptide
    J-related gene
    496 475 AI922792 lung primary 8 NULL Hs.239784 scribble
    497 489 R51273 lung primary 8 q12.2 Hs.250502 carbonic anhydrase VIII
    498 500 BE465243 lung primary 8 q13.2 Hs.12664 ESTs
    499 503 AA132172 lung primary 8 q13.2 Hs.19107 ESTs
    500 549 AA203476 lung primary 8 q13.2 Hs.252587 pituitary tumor-transforming 1
    501 555 AF232217 lung primary 8 q13.3 NULL unknown
    502 556 AF130055 lung primary 8 q13.3 NULL unknown
    503 463 BF002104 lung primary 8 q21.11 Hs.168950 Homo sapiens mRNA cDNA DKFZp566A1046
    (from clone DKFZp566A1046)
    504 507 AI335223 lung primary 8 q21.11 Hs.133293 ESTs
    505 512 AI370381 lung primary 8 q21.11 Hs.128841 ESTs
    506 529 AK024242 lung primary 8 q21.11 Hs.296753 Homo sapiens cDNA FLJ14180 fis clone
    NT2RP2003799
    507 530 AI701468 lung primary 8 q21.11 Hs.60681 Homo sapiens cDNA FLJ34367 fis clone
    FEBRA2016621
    508 480 BG389015 lung primary 8 q21.13 Hs.2384 tumor protein D52
    509 499 AA479492 lung primary 8 q21.13 Hs.184387 ESTs
    510 488 U07969 lung primary 8 q22.1 Hs.89436 cadherin 17 LI cadherin (liver-intestine)
    511 491 AF091433 lung primary 8 q22.1 Hs.30464 cyclin E2
    512 490 AA584310 lung primary 8 q22.3 Hs.283713 collagen triple helix repeat containing 1
    513 505 AA904882 lung primary 8 q22.3 Hs.130107 ESTs
    514 543 AA451665 lung primary 8 q24.13 Hs.222088 hypothetical protein MGC5254
    515 493 W03103 lung primary 8 q24.22 Hs.10669 development and differentiation enhancing
    factor 1
    516 518 BF055351 lung primary 8 q24.22 Hs.20247 ESTs Weakly similar to hypothetical protein
    FLJ20489 [Homo sapiens] [H. sapiens]
    517 544 BF941325 lung primary 8 q24.22 Hs.15611 KIAA1485 protein
    518 535 AW137073 lung primary 8 q24.23 Hs.176669 Homo sapiens mRNA cDNA DKFZp451M139
    (from clone DKFZp451M139)
    519 537 AA447947 lung primary 12 p11.22 Hs.227591 hypothetical protein FLJ11088
    520 456 R91766 lung primary 12 p11.23 Hs.173074 DKFZP564O1863 protein
    521 466 AF274950 lung primary 12 p11.23 Hs.22595 hypothetical protein FLJ10637
    522 470 AI334297 lung primary 12 p11.23 Hs.51743 KIAA1340 protein
    523 476 AW779556 lung primary 12 p11.23 Hs.184523 serine/threonine kinase 38 like
    524 478 AI688580 lung primary 12 p11.23 Hs.286145 SRB7 suppressor of RNA polymerase B
    homolog (yeast)
    525 483 AF161472 lung primary 12 p11.23 NULL unknown
    526 504 BF724206 lung primary 12 p11.23 Hs.221024 ESTs
    527 525 AL118653 lung primary 12 p11.23 Hs.284270 Homo sapiens cDNA FLJ11335 fis clone
    PLACE1010630
    528 531 AI652982 lung primary 12 p11.23 Hs.111583 Homo sapiens cDNA FLJ34764 fis clone
    NT2NE2002311
    529 553 AA127950 lung primary 12 p11.23 Hs.222024 transcription factor BMAL2
    530 449 AI652662 lung primary 12 p12.1 Hs.317432 branched chain aminotransferase 1 cytosolic
    531 460 AU154905 lung primary 12 p12.1 Hs.296734 Homo sapiens cDNA FLJ13318 fis clone
    OVARC1001600
    532 461 AK025615 lung primary 12 p12.1 Hs.7567 Homo sapiens cDNA: FLJ21962 fis clone
    HEP05564
    533 462 AA829940 lung primary 12 p12.1 Hs.301210 Homo sapiens mRNA cDNA DKFZp564F2072
    (from clone DKFZp564F2072)
    534 468 BE326710 lung primary 12 p12.1 Hs.170994 hypothetical protein MGC10946
    535 484 AA015609 lung primary 12 p12.1 Hs.351221 v-Ki-ras2 Kirsten rat sarcoma 2 viral oncogene
    homolog
    536 501 W70242 lung primary 12 p12.1 Hs.58086 ESTs
    537 516 AI242023 lung primary 12 p12.1 Hs.137003 ESTs
    538 520 AI003792 lung primary 12 p12.1 Hs.120439 ethanolamine kinase
    539 554 AA669106 lung primary 12 p12.2 Hs.108106 ubiquitin-like containing PHD and RING finger
    domains 1
    540 459 BC003602 lung primary 12 p12.3 Hs.36727 H2A histone family member J
    541 487 AI392836 lung primary 12 p13.31 Hs.12045 C2f protein
    542 492 AI983033 lung primary 12 p13.31 Hs.380623 DEAD/H (Asp-Glu-Ala-Asp/His) box
    polypeptide 11 (CHL1-like helicase homolog S. cerevisiae)
    543 521 U74612 lung primary 12 p13.33 Hs.239 forkhead box M1
    544 455 AF213033 lung primary 14 q22.1 Hs.84113 cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor 3 (CDK2-
    associated dual specificity phosphatase)
    545 447 AF167438 lung primary 14 q23.2 Hs.179817 androgen-regulated short-chain
    dehydrogenase/reductase 1
    546 513 AI146765 lung primary 18 p11.31 Hs.373550 ESTs
    547 532 AW003207 lung primary 18 p11.31 Hs.48659 Homo sapiens cDNA FLJ36057 fis clone
    TESTI2018475 highly similar to LAMININ
    ALPHA-1 CHAIN PRECURSOR
    548 444 AF017790 lung primary 18 p11.32 Hs.58169 highly expressed in cancer rich in leucine
    heptad repeats
    549 450 AB023169 lung primary 20 p12.2 Hs.7935 BTB (POZ) domain containing 3
    550 457 AI732446 lung primary 20 p12.2 Hs.70903 ESTs
    551 479 D21267 lung primary 20 p12.2 Hs.84389 synaptosomal-associated protein 25 kDa
    552 452 Y00064 lung primary 20 p12.3 Hs.2281 chromogranin B (secretogranin 1)
    553 453 AI096882 lung primary 20 p13 Hs.135056 chromosome 20 open reading frame 139
    554 454 AI949781 lung primary 20 p13 Hs.26802 chromosome 20 open reading frame 97
    555 477 AI924533 lung primary 20 p13 Hs.105607 solute carrier family 4 sodium bicarbonate
    transporter-like member 11
    556 552 U85658 lung primary 20 q13.31 Hs.61796 transcription factor AP-2 gamma (activating
    enhancer binding protein 2 gamma)
    557 654 AW151887 lung metastatic 1 p22.3 Hs.169939 heparan sulfate 2-O-sulfotransferase 1
    558 651 BE645144 lung metastatic 1 p31.1 Hs.374411 ESTs Moderately similar to hypothetical
    protein FLJ20378 [Homo sapiens] [H. sapiens]
    559 619 AI810054 lung metastatic 1 p31.2 Hs.133260 hypothetical protein FLJ20354
    560 629 N32508 lung metastatic 1 p31.2 Hs.8107 G-protein gamma-12 subunit
    561 636 BC002488 lung metastatic 1 p31.2 Hs.165998 PAI-1 mRNA-binding protein
    562 628 AA618420 lung metastatic 1 p32.1 Hs.299254 Homo sapiens cDNA: FLJ23597 fis clone
    LNG15281
    563 627 AW140098 lung metastatic 1 p32.3 Hs.25821 Fas (TNFRSF6) associated factor 1
    564 648 AW409848 lung metastatic 1 p32.3 Hs.13036 DKFZP727A071 protein
    565 637 AF151063 lung metastatic 1 p34.1 NULL unknown
    566 600 AA926959 lung metastatic 1 q21.3 Hs.77550 p53-regulated DDA3
    567 576 AI766666 lung metastatic 1 q22 Hs.374850 apolipoprotein A-I binding protein
    568 588 AI690773 lung metastatic 1 q22 Hs.133294 ESTs
    569 601 AI739071 lung metastatic 1 q22 Hs.158515 hypothetical protein MGC13038
    570 561 AF326731 lung metastatic 1 q23.3 Hs.234545 cell division cycle associated 1
    571 562 D78335 lung metastatic 1 q23.3 Hs.75939 uridine monophosphate kinase
    572 558 AA182412 lung metastatic 1 q25.3 Hs.32058 chromosome 1 open reading frame 19
    573 599 AA725362 lung metastatic 2 p11.1 NULL unknown
    574 592 AI990317 lung metastatic 2 p13.1 Hs.154672 methylene tetrahydrofolate dehydrogenase
    (NAD+ dependent) methenyltetrahydrofolate
    cyclohydrolase
    575 603 AI191897 lung metastatic 2 p16.2 Hs.105223 Homo sapiens Similar to RIKEN cDNA
    2510006C20 gene clone MGC: 24001
    IMAGE: 4050858 mRNA complete cds
    576 583 BC001886 lung metastatic 2 p25.1 Hs.75319 ribonucleotide reductase M2 polypeptide
    577 605 H24953 lung metastatic 2 q13 NULL unknown
    578 575 AA749314 lung metastatic 2 q31.1 Hs.333893 cell division cycle associated 7
    579 579 AA868748 lung metastatic 5 p15.1 Hs.125249 ESTs
    580 589 AI439141 lung metastatic 6 p23 Hs.261023 hypothetical protein FLJ20958
    581 606 AU156822 lung metastatic 7 p11.2 Hs.287577 Homo sapiens cDNA FLJ13503 fis clone
    PLACE1004838
    582 607 U48722 lung metastatic 7 p11.2 NULL unknown
    583 609 AA768884 lung metastatic 7 p11.2 Hs.140489 Homo sapiens cDNA FLJ25559 fis clone
    JTH02834
    584 610 AK000106 lung metastatic 7 p11.2 Hs.272227 Homo sapiens cDNA FLJ20099 fis clone
    COL04544
    585 613 AU147861 lung metastatic 7 p11.2 Hs.188082 Homo sapiens cDNA FLJ12308 fis clone
    MAMMA1001931
    586 616 BE737030 lung metastatic 7 p11.2 Hs.82916 chaperonin containing TCP1 subunit 6A (zeta
    1)
    587 622 AW157070 lung metastatic 7 p11.2 Hs.77432 epidermal growth factor receptor
    (erythroblastic leukemia viral (v-erb-b)
    oncogene homolog avian)
    588 639 BE878463 lung metastatic 7 p11.2 Hs.279898 Homo sapiens cDNA: FLJ23165 fis clone
    LNG09846
    589 557 AK023208 lung metastatic 7 p14.2 Hs.62180 anillin actin binding protein (scraps homolog
    Drosophila)
    590 560 U97188 lung metastatic 7 p15.3 Hs.79440 IGF-II mRNA-binding protein 3
    591 577 AI910524 lung metastatic 7 p15.3 Hs.87385 hypothetical protein BC012331
    592 590 AI806483 lung metastatic 7 p15.3 Hs.108931 membrane protein palmitoylated 6 (MAGUK
    p55 subfamily member 6)
    593 617 AL136770 lung metastatic 7 q21.13 Hs.258576 claudin 12
    594 635 BF680588 lung metastatic 7 q21.13 Hs.118258 Homo sapiens cDNA: FLJ23160 fis clone
    LNG09682
    595 618 U19348 lung metastatic 7 q31.2 NULL unknown
    596 638 BG170541 lung metastatic 7 q31.2 Hs.285754 met proto-oncogene (hepatocyte growth factor
    receptor)
    597 641 AI632244 lung metastatic 7 q32.1 Hs.233694 putative methyltransferase
    598 653 AI964022 lung metastatic 7 q33 Hs.107394 secretory protein SEC8
    599 593 AI922792 lung metastatic 8 NULL Hs.239784 scribble
    600 644 AA723810 lung metastatic 8 NULL Hs.69517 cDNA for differentially expressed CO16 gene
    601 621 BF059124 lung metastatic 8 q12.3 Hs.29419 ESTs
    602 631 AA543030 lung metastatic 8 q12.3 Hs.152409 ESTs
    603 632 AF289489 lung metastatic 8 q12.3 Hs.283664 aspartate beta-hydroxylase
    604 646 AW663544 lung metastatic 8 q13.1 Hs.85524 ring finger protein 29
    605 581 BF002104 lung metastatic 8 q21.11 Hs.168950 Homo sapiens mRNA cDNA DKFZp566A1046
    (from clone DKFZp566A1046)
    606 612 AI916600 lung metastatic 8 q21.11 Hs.121194 Homo sapiens cDNA: FLJ21569 fis clone
    COL06508
    607 623 AI625741 lung metastatic 8 q21.11 Hs.21275 hypothetical protein FLJ11011
    608 630 AW150720 lung metastatic 8 q21.11 Hs.356086 ESTs Weakly similar to retinal short-chain
    dehydrogenase/reductase retSDR2 [Homo
    sapiens] [H. sapiens]
    609 645 N89607 lung metastatic 8 q21.11 Hs.184693 transcription elongation factor B (SIII)
    polypeptide 1 (15 kDa elongin C)
    610 650 W46994 lung metastatic 8 q21.11 Hs.96870 staufen RNA binding protein homolog 2
    (Drosophila)
    611 563 BG389015 lung metastatic 8 q21.13 Hs.2384 tumor protein D52
    612 633 AK000049 lung metastatic 8 q21.13 Hs.183861 hypothetical protein MGC22825
    613 634 AK024296 lung metastatic 8 q21.13 Hs.237146 zinc finger protein RINZF
    614 656 AL039862 lung metastatic 8 q24.21 Hs.49136 Homo sapiens cDNA FLJ23705 fis clone
    HEP11066
    615 611 M26095 lung metastatic 11 p15.2 Hs.37058 calcitonin/calcitonin-related polypeptide alpha
    616 565 AF256215 lung metastatic 12 p11.23 Hs.222024 transcription factor BMAL2
    617 566 AI569851 lung metastatic 12 p11.23 Hs.22595 hypothetical protein FLJ10637
    618 573 AF161472 lung metastatic 12 p11.23 NULL unknown
    619 574 U46837 lung metastatic 12 p11.23 Hs.286145 SRB7 suppressor of RNA polymerase B
    homolog (yeast)
    620 580 R91766 lung metastatic 12 p11.23 Hs.173074 DKFZP564O1863 protein
    621 584 AI334297 lung metastatic 12 p11.23 Hs.51743 KIAA1340 protein
    622 585 AW779556 lung metastatic 12 p11.23 Hs.184523 serine/threonine kinase 38 like
    623 586 BF540749 lung metastatic 12 p11.23 Hs.111583 Homo sapiens cDNA FLJ34764 fis clone
    NT2NE2002311
    624 587 BC005176 lung metastatic 12 p11.23 Hs.10071 seven transmembrane protein TM7SF3
    625 564 AI652662 lung metastatic 12 p12.1 Hs.317432 branched chain aminotransferase 1 cytosolic
    626 568 AK025615 lung metastatic 12 p12.1 Hs.7567 Homo sapiens cDNA: FLJ21962 fis clone
    HEP05564
    627 570 BE326710 lung metastatic 12 p12.1 Hs.170994 hypothetical protein MGC10946
    628 595 AA829940 lung metastatic 12 p12.1 Hs.301210 Homo sapiens mRNA cDNA DKFZp564F2072
    (from clone DKFZp564F2072)
    629 597 AA015609 lung metastatic 12 p12.1 Hs.351221 v-Ki-ras2 Kirsten rat sarcoma 2 viral oncogene
    homolog
    630 604 AU154905 lung metastatic 12 p12.1 Hs.296734 Homo sapiens cDNA FLJ13318 fis clone
    OVARC1001600
    631 571 AK025578 lung metastatic 12 p12.2 Hs.108106 ubiquitin-like containing PHD and RING finger
    domains 1
    632 578 BC003602 lung metastatic 12 p12.3 Hs.36727 H2A histone family member J
    633 643 AI743489 lung metastatic 12 p13.1 Hs.322679 Homo sapiens cDNA FLJ36082 fis clone
    TESTI2019998
    634 642 AA102574 lung metastatic 14 q12 Hs.8858 bromodomain adjacent to zinc finger domain
    1A
    635 620 AI953589 lung metastatic 14 q13.1 Hs.146134 ESTs
    636 608 AW268365 lung metastatic 14 q21.3 Hs.25740 ERO1-like (S. cerevisiae)
    637 626 BC006117 lung metastatic 14 q21.3 Hs.222021 hypothetical protein FLJ12618
    638 655 AJ292969 lung metastatic 14 q21.3 Hs.288906 WW45 protein
    639 567 AF213033 lung metastatic 14 q22.1 Hs.84113 cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor 3 (CDK2-
    associated dual specificity phosphatase)
    640 652 BC005359 lung metastatic 14 q22.1 Hs.151413 glia maturation factor beta
    641 614 AI985034 lung metastatic 14 q23.1 Hs.2704 glutathione peroxidase 2 (gastrointestinal)
    642 624 AI554514 lung metastatic 14 q23.1 Hs.97849 ESTs
    643 569 AF167438 lung metastatic 14 q23.2 Hs.179817 androgen-regulated short-chain
    dehydrogenase/reductase 1
    644 625 AI654093 lung metastatic 14 q23.2 Hs.43397 Homo sapiens cDNA FLJ37574 fis clone
    BRCOC2003100
    645 647 BE465894 lung metastatic 14 q24.2 Hs.98365 hypothetical protein FLJ39091
    646 615 AI969102 lung metastatic 14 q32.11 Hs.172216 chromogranin A (parathyroid secretory protein
    1)
    647 640 AI656232 lung metastatic 14 q32.11 Hs.90034 hypothetical protein FLJ21916
    648 649 AI670847 lung metastatic 14 q32.12 Hs.374662 Homo sapiens cDNA FLJ40513 fis clone
    TESTI2046456
    649 559 AF017790 lung metastatic 18 p11.32 Hs.58169 highly expressed in cancer rich in leucine
    heptad repeats
    650 591 D21267 lung metastatic 20 p12.2 Hs.84389 synaptosomal-associated protein 25 kDa
    651 598 AI732446 lung metastatic 20 p12.2 Hs.70903 ESTs
    652 602 AB023169 lung metastatic 20 p12.2 Hs.7935 BTB (POZ) domain containing 3
    653 572 Y00064 lung metastatic 20 p12.3 Hs.2281 chromogranin B (secretogranin 1)
    654 582 AI949781 lung metastatic 20 p13 Hs.26802 chromosome 20 open reading frame 97
    655 594 AF336127 lung metastatic 20 p13 Hs.105607 solute carrier family 4 sodium bicarbonate
    transporter-like member 11
    656 596 AI096882 lung metastatic 20 p13 Hs.135056 chromosome 20 open reading frame 139
    657 662 AK000490 prostate primary 1 p31.2 Hs.133260 hypothetical protein FLJ20354
    658 659 AW271106 prostate primary 1 q22 Hs.133294 ESTs
    659 660 AI053741 prostate primary 1 q22 Hs.133294 ESTs
    660 663 AA830844 prostate primary 1 q23.2 Hs.127310 kinase interacting with leukemia-associated
    gene (stathmin)
    661 657 AF326731 prostate primary 1 q23.3 Hs.234545 cell division cycle associated 1
    662 661 AB032931 prostate primary 1 q32.1 Hs.5199 HSPC150 protein similar to ubiquitin-
    conjugating enzyme
    663 658 U30872 prostate primary 1 q32.3 Hs.77204 centromere protein F 350/400 ka (mitosin)
    664 684 AI492879 prostate primary 2 p25.1 Hs.75319 ribonucleotide reductase M2 polypeptide
    665 683 N21131 prostate primary 2 q37.3 Hs.42949 hairy and enhancer of split 6 (Drosophila)
    666 690 BE407516 prostate primary 5 q13.2 Hs.23960 cyclin B1
    667 691 U70370 prostate primary 5 q31.1 Hs.84136 paired-like homeodomain transcription factor 1
    668 692 BE794699 prostate primary 6 p21.2 Hs.284207 hypothetical protein BC003515
    669 694 AI343467 prostate primary 7 p14.1 Hs.28792 Homo sapiens cDNA FLJ11041 fis clone
    PLACE1004405
    670 695 M13436 prostate primary 7 p14.1 Hs.727 inhibin beta A (activin A activin AB alpha
    polypeptide)
    671 693 AK023208 prostate primary 7 p14.2 Hs.62180 anillin actin binding protein (scraps homolog
    Drosophila)
    672 698 AI932328 prostate primary 8 p21.1 Hs.104741 T-LAK cell-originated protein kinase
    673 697 AA203476 prostate primary 8 q13.2 Hs.252587 pituitary tumor-transforming 1
    674 696 AI925583 prostate primary 8 q24.13 Hs.222088 hypothetical protein MGC5254
    675 700 BE544837 prostate primary 9 q33.2 Hs.352417 Homo sapiens Similar to RIKEN cDNA
    3321402G02 gene clone MGC: 23929
    IMAGE: 4807540 mRNA complete cds
    676 699 AI983261 prostate primary 9 q34.3 Hs.323445 ESTs Weakly similar to T2D3_HUMAN
    Transcription initiation factor TFIID 135 kDa
    subunit (TAFII-135) (TAFII135)
    677 664 X05360 prostate primary 10 q21.2 Hs.334562 cell division cycle 2 G1 to S and G2 to M
    678 665 AI674163 prostate primary 10 q23.33 Hs.14559 hypothetical protein FLJ10540
    679 666 BE614410 prostate primary 11 q13.1 Hs.23044 similar to RIKEN cDNA 2610036L13
    680 667 U74612 prostate primary 12 p13.33 Hs.239 forkhead box M1
    681 668 R61322 prostate primary 12 q24.31 Hs.204166 Human clone 295 5cM region surrounding
    hepatocyte nuclear factor-1a/MODY3 mRNA
    682 669 L25876 prostate primary 14 q22.1 Hs.84113 cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor 3 (CDK2-
    associated dual specificity phosphatase)
    683 670 U65410 prostate primary 14 q23.1 Hs.79078 MAD2 mitotic arrest deficient-like 1 (yeast)
    684 671 AL080146 prostate primary 15 q21.3 Hs.194698 cyclin B2
    685 672 D14657 prostate primary 15 q22.2 Hs.81892 KIAA0101 gene product
    686 674 AB018009 prostate primary 16 NULL Hs.184601 solute carrier family 7 (cationic amino acid
    transporter y+ system) member 5
    687 673 AI819340 prostate primary 16 p13.3 Hs.13561 hypothetical protein MGC4692
    688 678 BE328850 prostate primary 17 q11.2 Hs.348504 hypothetical protein BC014072
    689 679 AF063308 prostate primary 17 q11.2 Hs.16244 mitotic spindle coiled-coil related protein
    690 676 AW003286 prostate primary 17 q21.31 Hs.370428 ESTs Moderately similar to TP2A_HUMAN
    DNA topoisomerase II alpha isozyme
    [H. sapiens]
    691 680 AI375913 prostate primary 17 q21.31 Hs.156346 topoisomerase (DNA) II alpha 170 kDa
    692 681 L47276 prostate primary 17 q21.31 NULL unknown
    693 677 BG165011 prostate primary 17 q23.2 Hs.165909 ESTs Weakly similar to hypothetical protein
    FLJ20489 [Homo sapiens] [H. sapiens]
    694 675 BF056791 prostate primary 17 q23.3 Hs.87507 ESTs
    695 682 AA719022 prostate primary 19 q13.43 Hs.288549 ubiquitin UBF-fl
    696 686 D80008 prostate primary 20 p11.21 Hs.36232 KIAA0186 gene product
    697 685 AF098158 prostate primary 20 q11.1 Hs.9329 chromosome 20 open reading frame 1
    698 688 U73379 prostate primary 20 q13.12 Hs.93002 ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme E2C
    699 687 AF011468 prostate primary 20 q13.31 Hs.250822 serine/threonine kinase 6
    700 701 T77624 prostate primary 21 q22.13 Hs.79375 holocarboxylase synthetase (biotin-[proprionyl-
    Coenzyme A-carboxylase (ATP-hydrolysing)]
    ligase)
    701 689 AI381686 prostate primary 22 q13.2 Hs.208912 hypothetical protein MGC861
    702 723 AA630330 prostate metastatic 1 q21.2 Hs.89545 proteasome (prosome macropain) subunit beta
    type 4
    703 771 AW271106 prostate metastatic 1 q22 Hs.133294 ESTs
    704 773 AI690773 prostate metastatic 1 q22 Hs.133294 ESTs
    705 803 AI766666 prostate metastatic 1 q22 Hs.374850 apolipoprotein A-I binding protein
    706 739 AI249980 prostate metastatic 1 q23.2 Hs.127310 kinase interacting with leukemia-associated
    gene (stathmin)
    707 798 AI015982 prostate metastatic 1 q23.3 Hs.234545 cell division cycle associated 1
    708 745 H62656 prostate metastatic 1 q24.3 Hs.300893 hypothetical protein MGC17528
    709 753 N29457 prostate metastatic 1 q31.1 Hs.117305 hypothetical gene supported by BC007071
    710 796 U30872 prostate metastatic 1 q32.3 Hs.77204 centromere protein F 350/400 ka (mitosin)
    711 794 AA151971 prostate metastatic 1 q42.2 Hs.334372 chorionic somatomammotropin hormone 2
    712 748 AI971357 prostate metastatic 3 p21.32 Hs.146170 hypothetical protein FLJ22969
    713 778 W24316 prostate metastatic 3 q12.3 Hs.173374 endothelial and smooth muscle cell-derived
    neuropilin-like protein
    714 716 AI338462 prostate metastatic 3 q26.1 Hs.50758 SMC4 structural maintenance of
    chromosomes 4-like 1 (yeast)
    715 717 AB019987 prostate metastatic 3 q26.1 Hs.50758 SMC4 structural maintenance of
    chromosomes 4-like 1 (yeast)
    716 740 AL119157 prostate metastatic 3 q26.32 Hs.22941 KIAA1363 protein
    717 777 BG170335 prostate metastatic 3 q26.32 Hs.122579 epithelial cell transforming sequence 2
    oncogene
    718 704 AI968388 prostate metastatic 3 q26.33 NULL unknown
    719 724 AA194529 prostate metastatic 3 q28 Hs.74619 proteasome (prosome macropain) 26S subunit
    non-ATPase 2
    720 760 BE256479 prostate metastatic 5 p14.3 Hs.79037 heat shock 60 kDa protein 1 (chaperonin)
    721 705 AI750154 prostate metastatic 5 p15.1 NULL unknown
    722 711 U96131 prostate metastatic 5 p15.33 Hs.6566 thyroid hormone receptor interactor 13
    723 787 M25753 prostate metastatic 5 q13.2 Hs.23960 cyclin B1
    724 758 AI369840 prostate metastatic 6 p21.1 Hs.374582 Homo sapiens cDNA FLJ11842 fis clone
    HEMBA1006652 weakly similar to 60S
    RIBOSOMAL PROTEIN L7
    725 804 AK023208 prostate metastatic 7 p14.2 Hs.62180 anillin actin binding protein (scraps homolog
    Drosophila)
    726 752 AI910524 prostate metastatic 7 p15.3 Hs.87385 hypothetical protein BC012331
    727 721 L07493 prostate metastatic 7 p21.3 Hs.1608 replication protein A3 14 kDa
    728 730 AL582836 prostate metastatic 7 q21.3 Hs.137476 paternally expressed 10
    729 770 AI922470 prostate metastatic 7 q21.3 Hs.370106 ESTs Highly similar to asparagine synthetase
    [Homo sapiens] [H. sapiens]
    730 726 L37127 prostate metastatic 7 q22.1 Hs.80475 polymerase (RNA) II (DNA directed)
    polypeptide J 13.3 kDa
    731 736 AA193396 prostate metastatic 7 q31.2 Hs.285754 met proto-oncogene (hepatocyte growth factor
    receptor)
    732 768 AI679933 prostate metastatic 7 q33 Hs.369347 ESTs Weakly similar to hypothetical protein
    FLJ20378 [Homo sapiens] [H. sapiens]
    733 763 AI571298 prostate metastatic 8 NULL Hs.343589 exosome component Rrp41
    734 732 AA191576 prostate metastatic 8 q12.1 Hs.9614 nucleophosmin (nucleolar phosphoprotein B23
    numatrin)
    735 801 AW001796 prostate metastatic 8 q12.3 Hs.283664 aspartate beta-hydroxylase
    736 729 AA203476 prostate metastatic 8 q13.2 Hs.252587 pituitary tumor-transforming 1
    737 795 AI525903 prostate metastatic 8 q13.3 Hs.118554 CGI-83 protein
    738 710 AA995715 prostate metastatic 8 q21.11 Hs.184693 transcription elongation factor B (SIII)
    polypeptide 1 (15 kDa elongin C)
    739 782 BE409290 prostate metastatic 8 q22.3 Hs.273344 DKFZP564O0463 protein
    740 788 AA584310 prostate metastatic 8 q22.3 Hs.283713 collagen triple helix repeat containing 1
    741 769 BF109660 prostate metastatic 8 q23.1 Hs.127286 ESTs Moderately similar to leucine-rich
    neuronal protein [Homo sapiens] [H. sapiens]
    742 789 AI802955 prostate metastatic 8 q23.2 Hs.195870 chronic myelogenous leukemia tumor antigen
    66
    743 737 AL117612 prostate metastatic 8 q24.12 Hs.76550 mal T-cell differentiation protein 2
    744 756 AI880004 prostate metastatic 8 q24.22 Hs.356036 Homo sapiens mRNA cDNA DKFZp666E036
    (from clone DKFZp666E036)
    745 784 AI023398 prostate metastatic 8 q24.22 Hs.10669 development and differentiation enhancing
    factor 1
    746 706 AA527374 prostate metastatic 8 q24.23 NULL unknown
    747 702 AF067656 prostate metastatic 10 q21.1 Hs.42650 ZW10 interactor
    748 799 AF154332 prostate metastatic 10 q21.2 Hs.334562 cell division cycle 2 G1 to S and G2 to M
    749 802 BC006121 prostate metastatic 10 q22.1 Hs.117062 apoptosis-inducing factor (AIF)-homologous
    mitochondrion-associated inducer of death
    750 728 K03226 prostate metastatic 10 q22.2 Hs.77274 plasminogen activator urokinase
    751 805 U90339 prostate metastatic 10 q22.2 Hs.94382 adenosine kinase
    752 725 AI198535 prostate metastatic 10 q22.3 Hs.89463 potassium large conductance calcium-
    activated channel subfamily M alpha member 1
    753 734 N27428 prostate metastatic 10 q23.31 Hs.240 M-phase phosphoprotein 1
    754 751 AI674163 prostate metastatic 10 q23.33 Hs.14559 hypothetical protein FLJ10540
    755 718 BE614410 prostate metastatic 11 q13.1 Hs.23044 similar to RIKEN cDNA 2610036L13
    756 761 BG251266 prostate metastatic 11 q13.1 Hs.283565 FOS-like antigen 1
    757 733 AA621983 prostate metastatic 11 q13.3 Hs.116051 myeloma overexpressed gene (in a subset of
    t(11 14) positive multiple myelomas)
    758 722 U82984 prostate metastatic 12 q13.12 Hs.23900 Rac GTPase activating protein 1
    759 747 AF091087 prostate metastatic 12 q13.12 Hs.206501 hypothetical protein from clone 643
    760 754 AI936946 prostate metastatic 12 q13.12 Hs.121973 Homo sapiens clone MGC: 20874
    IMAGE: 4547239 mRNA complete cds
    761 707 AL118633 prostate metastatic 12 q13.13 Hs.151678 UDP-N-acetyl-alpha-D-
    galactosamine:polypeptide N-
    acetylgalactosaminyltransferase 6 (GalNAc-
    T6)
    762 741 X81420 prostate metastatic 12 q13.13 Hs.32952 keratin hair basic 1
    763 762 D79987 prostate metastatic 12 q13.13 Hs.153479 extra spindle poles like 1 (S. cerevisiae)
    764 727 AF025840 prostate metastatic 14 q21.2 Hs.99185 polymerase (DNA directed) epsilon 2 (p59
    subunit)
    765 744 AA648933 prostate metastatic 14 q21.2 Hs.374811 hypothetical protein MGC20689
    766 749 BC006117 prostate metastatic 14 q21.3 Hs.222021 hypothetical protein FLJ12618
    767 750 AI924794 prostate metastatic 14 q21.3 Hs.27931 hypothetical protein FLJ10607 similar to
    glucosamine-phosphate N-acetyltransferase
    768 776 AW268365 prostate metastatic 14 q21.3 Hs.25740 ERO1-like (S. cerevisiae)
    769 780 D13633 prostate metastatic 14 q22.1 Hs.77695 Drosophila discs large-1 tumor supressor-like
    770 785 L25876 prostate metastatic 14 q22.1 Hs.84113 cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor 3 (CDK2-
    associated dual specificity phosphatase)
    771 766 AI417084 prostate metastatic 14 q22.2 Hs.301231 ESTs Weakly similar to PSA3_HUMAN
    Proteasome subunit alpha type 3 (Proteasome
    component C8) (Macropain
    772 735 J04031 prostate metastatic 14 q23.1 Hs.172665 methylenetetrahydrofolate dehydrogenase
    (NADP+ dependent) methenyltetrahydrofolate
    cyclohydrolase formyltetrahydrofolate
    synthetase
    773 738 U65410 prostate metastatic 14 q23.1 Hs.79078 MAD2 mitotic arrest deficient-like 1 (yeast)
    774 731 AA926959 prostate metastatic 14 q32.12 Hs.77550 p53-regulated DDA3
    775 764 AL080102 prostate metastatic 14 q32.2 Hs.334810 eukaryotic translation initiation factor 5
    776 779 BF000332 prostate metastatic 14 q32.2 Hs.7720 dynein cytoplasmic heavy polypeptide 1
    777 786 AI525727 prostate metastatic 14 q32.2 Hs.38205 cyclin-dependent kinase 2-interacting protein
    778 800 AI761729 prostate metastatic 14 q32.2 Hs.12908 CDC42 binding protein kinase beta (DMPK-
    like)
    779 746 T65554 prostate metastatic 14 q32.31 Hs.317821 hypothetical protein MGC13251
    780 755 H04885 prostate metastatic 14 q32.31 Hs.72363 Homo sapiens clone MGC: 16771
    IMAGE: 3907551 mRNA complete cds
    781 797 AI684508 prostate metastatic 14 q32.31 Hs.34045 cell division cycle associated 4
    782 715 U81800 prostate metastatic 17 NULL Hs.85838 solute carrier family 16 (monocarboxylic acid
    transporters) member 3
    783 774 AI292123 prostate metastatic 17 NULL Hs.201390 ESTs
    784 743 AI458014 prostate metastatic 17 q22 Hs.283558 hypothetical protein PRO1855
    785 775 AA564822 prostate metastatic 17 q22 Hs.298564 ESTs
    786 767 BG165011 prostate metastatic 17 q23.2 Hs.165909 ESTs Weakly similar to hypothetical protein
    FLJ20489 [Homo sapiens] [H. sapiens]
    787 742 U28386 prostate metastatic 17 q24.3 Hs.159557 karyopherin alpha 2 (RAG cohort 1 importin
    alpha 1)
    788 713 K02581 prostate metastatic 17 q25.3 Hs.105097 thymidine kinase 1 soluble
    789 719 AA312511 prostate metastatic 17 q25.3 Hs.273307 signal recognition particle 68 kDa
    790 759 AI525822 prostate metastatic 17 q25.3 Hs.109706 hematological and neurological expressed 1
    791 772 AI733461 prostate metastatic 18 p11.22 Hs.127716 ESTs
    792 783 AB000277 prostate metastatic 18 p11.31 Hs.75814 discs large (Drosophila) homolog-associated
    protein 1
    793 712 X02308 prostate metastatic 18 p11.32 Hs.82962 thymidylate synthetase
    794 709 M91670 prostate metastatic 19 q13.42 Hs.174070 ubiquitin carrier protein
    795 708 AA719022 prostate metastatic 19 q13.43 Hs.288549 ubiquitin UBF-fl
    796 792 AI761506 prostate metastatic 20 p13 Hs.274422 chromosome 20 open reading frame 27
    797 793 H06350 prostate metastatic 20 p13 Hs.135056 chromosome 20 open reading frame 139
    798 720 AF011468 prostate metastatic 20 q13.31 Hs.250822 serine/threonine kinase 6
    799 714 AW016409 prostate metastatic 20 q13.33 Hs.235782 solute carrier family 21 (organic anion
    transporter) member 12
    800 765 X70940 prostate metastatic 20 q13.33 Hs.2642 eukaryotic translation elongation factor 1 alpha 2
    801 791 AI652030 prostate metastatic 21 q22.11 Hs.49932 chromosome 21 open reading frame 45
    802 703 AI861913 prostate metastatic 21 q22.3 Hs.143638 WD repeat domain 4
    803 757 AA577678 prostate metastatic 21 q22.3 Hs.282961 Homo sapiens cDNA FLJ35467 fis clone
    SMINT2005624
    804 781 AI860822 prostate metastatic 21 q22.3 Hs.110757 DNA segment on chromosome 21 (unique)
    2056 expressed sequence
    805 790 AI983544 prostate metastatic 21 q22.3 Hs.126522 chromosome 21 open reading frame 70
    806 120 R62346 breast metastatic 1 q23.2 NULL unknown Protein
    807 120 R62346 breast metastatic 1 q23.2 NULL unknown Protein
    808 120 R62346 breast metastatic 1 q23.2 NULL unknown Protein
    809 120 R62346 breast metastatic 1 q23.2 NULL unknown Protein
    810 120 R62346 breast metastatic 1 q23.2 NULL unknown Protein
    811 120 R62346 breast metastatic 1 q23.2 NULL unknown Transcript
    812 120 R62346 breast metastatic 1 q23.2 NULL unknown Transcript
    813 120 R62346 breast metastatic 1 q23.2 NULL unknown Transcript
    814 120 R62346 breast metastatic 1 q23.2 NULL unknown Transcript
    815 120 R62346 breast metastatic 1 q23.2 NULL unknown Transcript
    816 120 R62346 breast metastatic 1 q23.2 NULL unknown Transcript
    817 120 R62346 breast metastatic 1 q23.2 NULL unknown Transcript
    818 197 AA663786 breast metastatic 3 p21.31 NULL unknown Transcript
    819 194 AI962335 breast metastatic 3 p24.3 Hs.196042 ESTs Transcript
    820 227 W25552 breast metastatic 9 q34.3 Hs.212613 hypothetical protein FLJ36779 Protein
    821 227 W25552 breast metastatic 9 q34.3 Hs.212613 hypothetical protein FLJ36779 Transcript
    822 77 AI962335 breast primary 3 p24.3 Hs.196042 ESTs Transcript
    823 101 W25552 breast primary 9 q34.3 Hs.212613 hypothetical protein FLJ36779 Protein
    824 101 W25552 breast primary 9 q34.3 Hs.212613 hypothetical protein FLJ36779 Transcript
    825 334 AI962335 colon metastatic 3 p24.3 Hs.196042 ESTs Transcript
    826 393 W25552 colon metastatic 9 q34.3 Hs.212613 hypothetical protein FLJ36779 Protein
    827 393 W25552 colon metastatic 9 q34.3 Hs.212613 hypothetical protein FLJ36779 Transcript
    828 301 AI962335 colon primary 3 p24.3 Hs.196042 ESTs Transcript
    829 328 W25552 colon primary 9 q34.3 Hs.212613 hypothetical protein FLJ36779 Protein
    830 328 W25552 colon primary 9 q34.3 Hs.212613 hypothetical protein FLJ36779 Transcript
    831 527 AK022113 lung primary 1 p31.3 Hs.301858 Homo sapiens cDNA FLJ13017 fis, Transcript
    clone NT2RP3000628
    832 527 AK022113 lung primary 1 p31.3 Hs.301858 Homo sapiens cDNA FLJ13017 fis, Transcript
    clone NT2RP3000628
    833 458 AA383208 lung primary 5 p15.1 Hs.125249 ESTs Protein
    834 458 AA383208 lung primary 5 p15.1 Hs.125249 ESTs Transcript
    835 519 C00851 lung primary 5 p13.2 Hs.144264 ESTs, Weakly similar to hypothetical Transcript
    protein FLJ20837 [Homo sapiens]
    [H. sapiens]
    836 505 AA904882 lung primary 8 q22.3 Hs.130107 ESTs Transcript
    837 529 AK024242 lung primary 8 q21.11 Hs.296753 Homo sapiens cDNA FLJ14180 fis, Transcript
    clone NT2RP2003799
    838 529 AK024242 lung primary 8 q21.11 Hs.296753 Homo sapiens cDNA FLJ14180 fis, Protein
    clone NT2RP2003799
    839 555 AF232217 lung primary 8 q13.3 NULL unknown Transcript
    840 513 AI146765 lung primary 18 p11.31 Hs.373550 ESTs Transcript
    841 753 N29457 prostate metastatic 1 q31.1 Hs.117305 hypothetical gene supported by Protein
    BC007071
    842 753 N29457 prostate metastatic 1 q31.1 Hs.117305 hypothetical gene supported by Protein
    BC007071
    843 753 N29457 prostate metastatic 1 q31.1 Hs.117305 hypothetical gene supported by Protein
    BC007071
    844 753 N29457 prostate metastatic 1 q31.1 Hs.117305 hypothetical gene supported by Protein
    BC007071
    845 753 N29457 prostate metastatic 1 q31.1 Hs.117305 hypothetical gene supported by Protein
    BC007071
    846 753 N29457 prostate metastatic 1 q31.1 Hs.117305 hypothetical gene supported by Transcript
    BC007071
    847 753 N29457 prostate metastatic 1 q31.1 Hs.117305 hypothetical gene supported by Transcript
    BC007071
    848 753 N29457 prostate metastatic 1 q31.1 Hs.117305 hypothetical gene supported by Protein
    BC007071
    849 753 N29457 prostate metastatic 1 q31.1 Hs.117305 hypothetical gene supported by Transcript
    BC007071
    850 753 N29457 prostate metastatic 1 q31.1 Hs.117305 hypothetical gene supported by Transcript
    BC007071
    851 753 N29457 prostate metastatic 1 q31.1 Hs.117305 hypothetical gene supported by Transcript
    BC007071
    852 753 N29457 prostate metastatic 1 q31.1 Hs.117305 hypothetical gene supported by Transcript
    BC007071
    853 753 N29457 prostate metastatic 1 q31.1 Hs.117305 hypothetical gene supported by Transcript
    BC007071
    854 753 N29457 prostate metastatic 1 q31.1 Hs.117305 hypothetical gene supported by Transcript
    BC007071
    855 705 AI750154 prostate metastatic 5 p15.1 NULL unknown Protein
    856 705 AI750154 prostate metastatic 5 p15.1 NULL unknown Transcript
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    IMAGE: 3907551, mRNA, complete cds
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    IMAGE: 3907551, mRNA, complete cds
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    IMAGE: 3907551, mRNA, complete cds
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    IMAGE: 3907551, mRNA, complete cds
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    IMAGE: 3907551, mRNA, complete cds
    865 755 H04885 prostate metastatic 14 q32.31 Hs.72363 Homo sapiens, clone MGC: 16771 Protein
    IMAGE: 3907551, mRNA, complete cds
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    IMAGE: 3907551, mRNA, complete cds
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    IMAGE: 3907551, mRNA, complete cds
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    IMAGE: 3907551, mRNA, complete cds
    869 755 H04885 prostate metastatic 14 q32.31 Hs.72363 Homo sapiens, clone MGC: 16771 Protein
    IMAGE: 3907551, mRNA, complete cds
    870 755 H04885 prostate metastatic 14 q32.31 Hs.72363 Homo sapiens, clone MGC: 16771 Protein
    IMAGE: 3907551, mRNA, complete cds
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    IMAGE: 3907551, mRNA, complete cds
    872 755 H04885 prostate metastatic 14 q32.31 Hs.72363 Homo sapiens, clone MGC: 16771 Protein
    IMAGE: 3907551, mRNA, complete cds
    873 755 H04885 prostate metastatic 14 q32.31 Hs.72363 Homo sapiens, clone MGC: 16771 Protein
    IMAGE: 3907551, mRNA, complete cds
    874 755 H04885 prostate metastatic 14 q32.31 Hs.72363 Homo sapiens, clone MGC: 16771 Protein
    IMAGE: 3907551, mRNA, complete cds
    875 755 H04885 prostate metastatic 14 q32.31 Hs.72363 Homo sapiens, clone MGC: 16771 Protein
    IMAGE: 3907551, mRNA, complete cds
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    IMAGE: 3907551, mRNA, complete cds
    877 755 H04885 prostate metastatic 14 q32.31 Hs.72363 Homo sapiens, clone MGC: 16771 Protein
    IMAGE: 3907551, mRNA, complete cds
    878 755 H04885 prostate metastatic 14 q32.31 Hs.72363 Homo sapiens, clone MGC: 16771 Protein
    IMAGE: 3907551, mRNA, complete cds
    879 755 H04885 prostate metastatic 14 q32.31 Hs.72363 Homo sapiens, clone MGC: 16771 Protein
    IMAGE: 3907551, mRNA, complete cds
    880 755 H04885 prostate metastatic 14 q32.31 Hs.72363 Homo sapiens, clone MGC: 16771 Protein
    IMAGE: 3907551, mRNA, complete cds
    881 755 H04885 prostate metastatic 14 q32.31 Hs.72363 Homo sapiens, clone MGC: 16771 Protein
    IMAGE: 3907551, mRNA, complete cds
    882 755 H04885 prostate metastatic 14 q32.31 Hs.72363 Homo sapiens, clone MGC: 16771 Protein
    IMAGE: 3907551, mRNA, complete cds
    883 755 H04885 prostate metastatic 14 q32.31 Hs.72363 Homo sapiens, clone MGC: 16771 Protein
    IMAGE: 3907551, mRNA, complete cds
    884 755 H04885 prostate metastatic 14 q32.31 Hs.72363 Homo sapiens, clone MGC: 16771 Protein
    IMAGE: 3907551, mRNA, complete cds
    885 755 H04885 prostate metastatic 14 q32.31 Hs.72363 Homo sapiens, clone MGC: 16771 Transcript
    IMAGE: 3907551, mRNA, complete cds
    886 755 H04885 prostate metastatic 14 q32.31 Hs.72363 Homo sapiens, clone MGC: 16771 Protein
    IMAGE: 3907551, mRNA, complete cds
    887 755 H04885 prostate metastatic 14 q32.31 Hs.72363 Homo sapiens, clone MGC: 16771 Protein
    IMAGE: 3907551, mRNA, complete cds
    888 755 H04885 prostate metastatic 14 q32.31 Hs.72363 Homo sapiens, clone MGC: 16771 Transcript
    IMAGE: 3907551, mRNA, complete cds
    889 755 H04885 prostate metastatic 14 q32.31 Hs.72363 Homo sapiens, clone MGC: 16771 Protein
    IMAGE: 3907551, mRNA, complete cds
    890 755 H04885 prostate metastatic 14 q32.31 Hs.72363 Homo sapiens, clone MGC: 16771 Transcript
    IMAGE: 3907551, mRNA, complete cds
    891 755 H04885 prostate metastatic 14 q32.31 Hs.72363 Homo sapiens, clone MGC: 16771 Transcript
    IMAGE: 3907551, mRNA, complete cds
    892 755 H04885 prostate metastatic 14 q32.31 Hs.72363 Homo sapiens, clone MGC: 16771 Transcript
    IMAGE: 3907551, mRNA, complete cds
    893 755 H04885 prostate metastatic 14 q32.31 Hs.72363 Homo sapiens, clone MGC: 16771 Transcript
    IMAGE: 3907551, mRNA, complete cds
    894 755 H04885 prostate metastatic 14 q32.31 Hs.72363 Homo sapiens, clone MGC: 16771 Transcript
    IMAGE: 3907551, mRNA, complete cds
    895 755 H04885 prostate metastatic 14 q32.31 Hs.72363 Homo sapiens, clone MGC: 16771 Transcript
    IMAGE: 3907551, mRNA, complete cds
    896 755 H04885 prostate metastatic 14 q32.31 Hs.72363 Homo sapiens, clone MGC: 16771 Transcript
    IMAGE: 3907551, mRNA, complete cds
    897 755 H04885 prostate metastatic 14 q32.31 Hs.72363 Homo sapiens, clone MGC: 16771 Transcript
    IMAGE: 3907551, mRNA, complete cds
    898 755 H04885 prostate metastatic 14 q32.31 Hs.72363 Homo sapiens, clone MGC: 16771 Transcript
    IMAGE: 3907551, mRNA, complete cds
    899 755 H04885 prostate metastatic 14 q32.31 Hs.72363 Homo sapiens, clone MGC: 16771 Transcript
    IMAGE: 3907551, mRNA, complete cds
    900 755 H04885 prostate metastatic 14 q32.31 Hs.72363 Homo sapiens, clone MGC: 16771 Transcript
    IMAGE: 3907551, mRNA, complete cds
    901 755 H04885 prostate metastatic 14 q32.31 Hs.72363 Homo sapiens, clone MGC: 16771 Transcript
    IMAGE: 3907551, mRNA, complete cds
    902 755 H04885 prostate metastatic 14 q32.31 Hs.72363 Homo sapiens, clone MGC: 16771 Transcript
    IMAGE: 3907551, mRNA, complete cds
    903 755 H04885 prostate metastatic 14 q32.31 Hs.72363 Homo sapiens, clone MGC: 16771 Transcript
    IMAGE: 3907551, mRNA, complete cds
    904 755 H04885 prostate metastatic 14 q32.31 Hs.72363 Homo sapiens, clone MGC: 16771 Transcript
    IMAGE: 3907551, mRNA, complete cds
    905 755 H04885 prostate metastatic 14 q32.31 Hs.72363 Homo sapiens, clone MGC: 16771 Transcript
    IMAGE: 3907551, mRNA, complete cds
    906 755 H04885 prostate metastatic 14 q32.31 Hs.72363 Homo sapiens, clone MGC: 16771 Transcript
    IMAGE: 3907551, mRNA, complete cds
    907 755 H04885 prostate metastatic 14 q32.31 Hs.72363 Homo sapiens, clone MGC: 16771 Transcript
    IMAGE: 3907551, mRNA, complete cds
    908 755 H04885 prostate metastatic 14 q32.31 Hs.72363 Homo sapiens, clone MGC: 16771 Transcript
    IMAGE: 3907551, mRNA, complete cds
    909 755 H04885 prostate metastatic 14 q32.31 Hs.72363 Homo sapiens, clone MGC: 16771 Transcript
    IMAGE: 3907551, mRNA, complete cds
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    IMAGE: 3907551, mRNA, complete cds
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    IMAGE: 3907551, mRNA, complete cds
    912 755 H04885 prostate metastatic 14 q32.31 Hs.72363 Homo sapiens, clone MGC: 16771 Transcript
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    IMAGE: 3907551, mRNA, complete cds
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    IMAGE: 3907551, mRNA, complete cds
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    IMAGE: 3907551, mRNA, complete cds
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    IMAGE: 3907551, mRNA, complete cds
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    IMAGE: 3907551, mRNA, complete cds
    919 755 H04885 prostate metastatic 14 q32.31 Hs.72363 Homo sapiens, clone MGC: 16771 Transcript
    IMAGE: 3907551, mRNA, complete cds
    920 755 H04885 prostate metastatic 14 q32.31 Hs.72363 Homo sapiens, clone MGC: 16771 Transcript
    IMAGE: 3907551, mRNA, complete cds
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    IMAGE: 3907551, mRNA, complete cds
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Claims (54)

1-4. (canceled)
5. A method for diagnosing cancer or a pre-cancerous condition in a mammal, comprising:
(a) obtaining a cell or tissue sample from a mammal suspected of having cancer or a pre-cancerous condition and determining for said sample the gene copy number of a gene of Table 1;
(b) comparing said gene copy number of step (a) to the gene copy number of the same gene from a sample of a corresponding cell or tissue from a mammal of the same species not having cancer of the type being diagnosed
whereby a higher gene copy number determined in step (a) relative to that in step (b) indicates the presence of a cancer or pre-cancerous condition in the mammal of step (a) and results in a diagnosis of cancer or a pre-cancerous condition in said mammal.
6. The method of claim 5 wherein said mammal is a human patient.
7. The method of claim 5 wherein said cancer is a member selected from breast cancer, colon cancer, lung cancer, prostate cancer, ovarian cancer, pancreatic cancer, cervical cancer and kidney cancer.
8. The method of claim 5 wherein the gene of Table 1 is a gene that encodes the same gene product as a polynucleotide of SEQ ID NO: 1-805 and 855-923.
9. A method of inhibiting cancer, or a pre-cancerous condition, in a mammalian cell, comprising contacting said cell with a molecule that inhibits function of a gene of Table 1.
10. The method of claim 9 wherein said gene of Table 1 is a gene that encodes the same gene product as a polynucleotide of SEQ ID NO: 1-805 and 855-923.
11. The method of claim 9 wherein said molecule inhibits gene function by binding to said gene.
12. The method of claim 9 wherein said molecule inhibits gene function by binding to an RNA encoded by said gene.
13. The method of claim 9 wherein said molecule inhibits gene function by binding to polypeptide encoded by said gene.
14. The method of claim 9 wherein said molecule is a member selected from an antisense DNA, an antisense RNA, a ribozyme and an siRNA.
15. The method of claim 9 wherein said cancer is a member selected from breast cancer, colon cancer, lung cancer, prostate cancer, ovarian cancer, pancreatic cancer, cervical cancer and kidney cancer.
16. The method of claim 9 wherein said contacting occurs in vivo.
17. A method for identifying an agent having therapeutic activity in a human patient in need of said therapeutic activity, comprising:
(a) determining in a sample from a patient the level of a gene product encoded by a gene of Table 1 prior to administering a test compound to said patient;
(b) administering said test compound to said patient;
(c) determining in a sample from said patient the level of a gene product encoded by the same the gene as in step (a)
wherein a decrease in the level of said gene product in step (c) relative to step (a) identifies said test compound as an agent having therapeutic activity.
18. The method of claim 17 wherein said therapeutic activity is anticancer activity.
19. The method of claim 17 wherein said cancer is a member selected from breast cancer, colon cancer, lung cancer, prostate cancer, ovarian cancer, pancreatic cancer, cervical cancer and kidney cancer.
20. The method of claim 17 wherein said gene product is an RNA.
21. The method of claim 17 wherein said gene product is a polypeptide.
22. The method of claim 21 wherein said determination of said polypeptide is a determination of an enzyme activity.
23. The method of claim 17 wherein said gene of Table 1 is a gene that encodes the same gene product as a polynucleotide of SEQ ID NO: 1-805 and 855-923.
24. The method of claim 17 wherein said molecule is a member selected from an antisense DNA, an antisense RNA, a ribozyme and an siRNA.
25. A method for identifying an antineoplastic agent, comprising:
(a) contacting a test compound with a cell that expresses a gene of Table 1; and
(b) determining a change in gene expression as a result of said contacting;
whereby said change in said gene expression identifies said test compound as an antineoplastic agent.
26-27. (canceled)
28. The method of claim 25 wherein said gene of Table 1 encodes the same gene product as a polynucleotide of SEQ ID NO: 1-805 and 855-923.
29. The method of claim 25 wherein said molecule is a member selected from an antisense DNA, an antisense RNA, ribozyme, an siRNA, a small organic molecule and an antibody.
30. A method for determining the cancerous status of a cell, comprising determining elevated expression in said cell of a gene of Table 1 wherein elevated expression of said gene indicates that said cell is cancerous.
31. (canceled)
32. The method of claim 30 wherein said gene of Table 1 encodes the same gene product as a polynucleotide of SEQ ID NO: 1-805 and 855-923.
33. A method for identifying a compound as an anti-neoplastic agent, comprising:
(a) contacting a test compound with a polypeptide encoded by a gene of Table 1,
(b) determining a change in a biological activity of said polypeptide due to said contacting,
wherein a change in activity identifies said test compound as an agent having antineoplastic activity.
34. The method of claim 33 wherein said gene of Table encodes the same gene product as a polynucleotide of SEQ ID NO: 1-805 and 855-923.
35. (canceled)
36. The method of claim 33 wherein said biological activity is an enzyme activity.
37-55. (canceled)
56. The method of claim 33 wherein said polypeptide is contained in a cell.
57. The method of claim 33 wherein said molecule is a member selected from antisense DNA, an antisense RNA, a ribozyme, an siRNA, a small organic molecule and an antibody.
58. The method of claim 57 wherein said antibody is specific for a polypeptide comprising an amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 806 -854.
59-61. (canceled)
62. A method for treating cancer comprising contacting a cancerous cell with an agent first identified as having gene modulating activity using the method of claim 25, 33, or 58 and in an amount effective to cause a reduction in cancerous activity of said cell.
63-66. (canceled)
67. A method for treating cancer comprising contacting a cancerous cell with an agent having affinity for an expression product of a gene of Table 1 and in an amount effective to cause a reduction in cancerous activity of said cell.
68. The method of claim 67 wherein said expression product is a polypeptide.
69. The method of claim 67 wherein said molecule is a member selected from antisense DNA, an antisense RNA, a ribozyme, an siRNA, a small organic molecule and an antibody.
70. The method of claim 69 wherein said antibody is specific for a polypeptide comprising an amino acid sequence selected from SEQ ID NO: 806-854.
71. A method for monitoring the progress of cancer therapy in a patient comprising monitoring in a patient undergoing cancer therapy the expression of a gene of Table 1.
72. The method of claim 71 wherein said gene encodes the same gene product as a polynucleotide of SEQ ID NO: 1-805 and 855-923.
73-74. (canceled)
75. A method for determining the likelihood of success of cancer therapy in a patient, comprising monitoring in a patient undergoing cancer therapy the expression of a gene of Table 1 wherein a decrease in said expression prior to completion of said cancer therapy is indicative of a likelihood of success of said cancer therapy.
76. The method of claim 75 wherein said gene encodes the same gene product as a polynucleotide of SEQ ID NO: 1-805 and 855-923.
77-78. (canceled)
79. A method for producing test data with respect to the anti-neoplastic activity of a compound comprising:
(a) identifying a test compound as having anti-neoplastic activity using a method of claim 25;
(b) producing test data with respect to the anti-neoplastic activity of said test compound sufficient to identify the chemical structure of said test compound.
80. A method for producing test data with respect to the anti-neoplastic activity of a compound comprising:
(a) identifying a test compound as having anti-neoplastic activity using a method of claim 33;
(b) producing test data with respect to the anti-neoplastic activity of said test compound sufficient to identify the chemical structure of said test compound.
81. A method for determining the progress of a treatment for cancer in a patient afflicted therewith, following commencement of a cancer treatment on said patient, comprising:
(a) determining in said patient a change in expression of one or more genes of Table 1; and
(b) determining a change in expression of said gene compared to expression of said one or more determined genes prior to said cancer treatment;
wherein said change in expression indicates progress of said treatment thereby determining the progress of said treatment.
82. The method of claim 81 wherein said change in expression is a decrease in expression and said decrease indicates success of said treatment.
83. The method of claim 81 wherein said gene encodes the same gene product as a polynucleotide of SEQ ID NO: 1-805 and 855-923.
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